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PICTURE  OF  THE  SUMMER  SCHOOL,  1905 


Summer  School  Number 


THE  »•  MIRROR. 

PUBLICATION  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY. 


VOL.  4,  SERIES  3.  ATHENS,  OHIO,  JULY,  190*.  NO.  9. 


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FACULTY  EDITORIAL  COMMITTEE  : 

ALSTON  ELLIS 
President  Ohio  University. 


HENRY  G.  WILLIAMS,  Dean  State  Norrr  al  College. 
Editor-in-Chief. 


DR.  FRANK  P.  BACHMAN. 
Department  of  the  History  and  Principles  of 
Education. 

DR.  OSCAR  CHRISMAN, 
Department  of  Psychology  and  Paidology. 
PROF.  HIRAM  ROY  WILSON. 
Department  of  English. 

PROF.  T.  N.  HOOVER, 

Associate  Professor  of  History. 


Introductory 

THIS  issue  of  The  Mirror  follows  the 
general  pl.an  determined  upon  one 
year  ago,  to  give  to  the  students  of 
the  Summer  School  of  Ohio  University  and 
State  Normal  College  a souvenir  edition, 
containing  many  illustrations  and  personal 
news  items  pertaining  to  the  Summer 
School.  It  is  furnished  free  to  all  students 
of  the  Summer  School  of  1905,  and  will  be 


mailed  for  the  asking  to  all  other  persons 
who  may  make  .such  request,  addressed  to 
“Ohio  University  Mirror,  care  President’s 
Office,  Athens,  Ohio.” 

We  are  pleased  to  be  able  to  issue  such  a 
publication,  containing  as  it  does  so  many 
excellent  and  interesting  pictures  of  those 
connected  with  Ohio  University,  and  so 
many  group  pictures  of  students,  county 
clubs,  boarding  clubs,  etc.  These  features 
make  the  publication  a valu.able  souvenir, 
which  will  doubtless  be  treasured  up  as  a 
reminder  of  happy  days  spent  in  Athens  at 
Ohio  University  and  State  Normal  College. 


Charles  Henry  Dumaree 

AGAIN  the  student  body  of  Ohio  Uni- 
versity and  the  members  of  her  fac- 
ulty are  in  the  deepest  sorrow, 
mourning  the  loss  of  Charles  Henry  Duma- 
ree; the  former  mourning  him  as  their 
colleague,  the  latter  as  their  pupil.  A few 
months  ago  Ohio  University  lost  one  of  her 
most  popular  and  most  prominent  profes- 
sors, now  she  has  lost  one  of  her  most 
popular  and  promising  students.  Words  are 
lacking  with  which  to  describe  the  surprise 
as  well  as  the  feeling  that  exists  among 
those  students  who  knew  him  most  inti- 
mately and  have  been  .associated  with  him 
most  closely,  and  not  only  to  these  but  to 
all  it  was  a terrible  shock.  While  we  as 
colleagues,  his  fellow  students,  instructors, 
and  relatives  are  grieving  over  our  loss,  there 
is  one  fact  that  consoles  us,  he  was  ready 
to  go.  That  is  probably  why  he  w,as  taken; 
if  so,  our  loss  is  his  gain.  His  life  was  not 
a long  life  but  a deep  life,  and  his  days  will 


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be  measured  spiritually,  not  mechanically. 
He  was  Shakespeare’s  model  man: 

“His  words  are  bonds,  his  oaths  are  oracles; 
His  love  sincere,  his  thoughts  immaculate; 
His  tears  pure  messengers  sent  from  his 
heart; 

His  heart  as  f.ar  from  fraud  as  heaven  from 
earth.” 

J/Ir.  Dumaree  was  a good  young  man, 
therefore  a noble  young  man,  for  Tennyson 
says,  “ 'Tis  noble  to  be  good.”  He  w.as 
faithful  and  content,  never  finding  any  fault 
with  the  course  of  events  but  adapting  him- 
self as  far  as  possible  to  the  existing  cir- 
cumstances. Then,  too,  he  was  character- 
ized by  his  sincerity,  his  loyalty,  his  deter- 


CHARLES  HENRY  DUMAREE 


mination  to  do  right  as  he  saw  the  right. 
He  w.as  very  ambitious  and  a hard  worker. 
Taking  into  consideration  Mr.  Dumaree’s 
life,  we  can  not  call  him  dead.  No!  with 
such  as  he  it  is  only  a passing  through  the 
portals  of  death  to  the  life  that  has  no  end. 

Mr.  Dumaree  was  a self-made  man,  .and 
that  he  was  ambitious  is  evidenced  by  the 
fact  that  he  had  carved  his  own  way  entire- 
ly during  his  life  since  leaving  the  district 
school.  He  did  not  stop  here,  however;  he 
determined  to  get  a college  education.  He 
had  made  his  w.ay  as  far  as  the  junior  class. 

A mother  and  father,  two  brothers,  and 


one  sister,  together  with  other  relatives  and 
friends  mourn  his  death.  Mr.  Dumaree  had 
been  failing  for  the  past  few  months,  but 
did  not  think  his  condition  at  all  dangerous. 
Sunday,  June  22,  at  noon  he  had  two  slight 
hemorrhages.  Sunday  night  one,  and  one 
Monday  afternoon.  He  passed  away  Tues- 
day morning,  June  24,  1905,  about  G:20. 
He  retained  consciousness  for  about  five 
minutes  after  the  last  hemorrhage  began. 
His  last  words  were  “It’s  a hard  fight.”  He 
fought  bravely  to  live  but  the  odds  were  too 
great.  Those  present  at  the  time  of  his 
death  were:  Dr.  McVey,  Mrs.  Kern,  Mrs. 
Bancroft,  Miss  Lucy  Cranmer,  Mr.  Nice, 
his  sister  Edith,  and  brother  E.  L.  Dumaree. 
His  death  occurred  at  the  Ladies’  Hall.  He 
was  taken  sick  while  waiting  on  the  tables 
Monday  evening,  and  being  too  sick  to  be 
moved  to  his  room  he  was  kept  there  all 
night. 

Charles  Henry  Dumaree  was  born  May  1G, 
1877,  in  Vinton  county,  attended  the  district 
school  up  to  the  age  of  sixteen,  after  which 
he  taught  school  for  a period  Trior  to  his 
entering  college  here  in  the  spring  term  of 
’99.  Since  that  time  he  has  taught  during, 
the  winter  months  and  attended  Ohio  Uni- 
versity during  the  spring  and  summer 
terms.  He  was  .at  the  time  of  his  death  a 
member  of  the  junior  class.  For  three  years 
Mr.  Dumaree  was  superintendent  of  the 
schools  at  Luhrig,  during  which  time  he 
taught  night  and  day.  It  is  this  that  is 
thought  to  have  caused  his  health  to  break. 
The  remainder  of  his  teaching,  which 
amounts  to  seven  years  in  all,  was  done  in 
Vinton  county  and  in  the  southeastern  part 
of  Ohio.  He  was  also  a member  of  the 
Board  of  School  Examiners  of  Vinton 
county. 

Mr.  Dumaree  was  a member  of  the 
Marshfield  Lodge  Constitution  F.  and  A.  M., 
also  the  K.  of  P.  lodge  at  Marshfield.  Dur- 
ing his  st.ay  in  Athens  he  was  always  a de- 
vout Christian  and  a great  and  enthusiastic 
worker  in  the  M.  E.  church,  Epworth  Lea- 
gue, and  Sunday  School.  In  college  he  was 
very  active,  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  in  the 
Athenian  Literary  Society,  also  editor  of 
The  O.  U.  Mirror.  It  was  he  that  planned 
and  worked  up  the  memori.al  edition  of 
Professor  Higley.  In  this  he  manifested 
the  self-same  interest  that  characterized  all 
his  work. 

The  funeral  was  held  Wednesday  at  1 


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o’clock  at  the  Methodist  church,  the  ser- 
mon being  preached  by  Rev.  Bouquard,  of 
Marshfield,  where  he  was  a member.  Dr. 
King  .and  Dr.  Slutz  assisted  in  the  services. 
The  interment  took  place  at  the  new  com- 


etery  under  the  charge  of  the  Masonic 
Lodge.  The  music  was  furnished  by  a 
mixed  quartette,  Misses  Bishop  and  Bailey, 
Messrs.  Hoover  and  Crooks. 


DR.  RURIC  N.  ROARK,  LEXINGTON,  KY. 


The  Making  of  Teachers 

Abstract  of  Address  by  Dr.  R.  N.  Roark,  at  the  Dedi- 
cation of  the  State  Normal  College  Building, 

June  14,  1905. 

H T'O  OFFER  such  a subject  for  discus- 
X sion  might  seem  to  some  good 
people  as  impertinent  and  unwar- 
ranted; for  there  be  those  who  to  this  good 
day  persist  in  declaring  that  ‘the  teacher 
is  born  and  not  made’. 


And  so  indeed  he  is;  and  to  the  like  ex- 
tent— and  no  less — are  also  the  lawyer,  the 
doctor,  the  f.armer,  and  the  cook.  To  be 
born  and  not  made  means  simply  to  possess 
predilection  or  natural  aptitude.  It  means 
to  hold  within  the  hollow  reed  of  one’s  self 
the  Promethean  spark  which  needs  only 
the  wind  of  circumstance  or  opportunity  to 
fan  it  into  the  glow  of  talent  or  the  flame 
of  genius. 

Whoever  is  to  teach  most  successfully 


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EWING  HALL,  OHIO  UNIVERSITY 


must  have  this  innate  impulse  to  teach;  but 
the  te.acher,  like  the  lawyer,  or  the  preach- 
er, or  the  carpenter,  is  not  all  born  nor  so 
well  born  that  he  needs  no  making,  no 
special  training  that  shall  make  the  most 
possible  and  the  best  possible  out  of  his 
inheritance.  To  do  this  for  the  teacher 
is  the  peculi.ar  work  of  the  normal  school. 

To  define  this  function  more  particularly, 
it  is  needful  to  determine  the  equipment  of 
a teacher  and  to  enquire  how  well  a normal 
school  can  furnish  this  equipment. 

I name  the  following  as  essential  factors 
in  the  fitness  of  him  who  teaches:  (1) 
Physique,  (2)  Personality,  (3)  Scholarship, 
(4)  Technique,  (5)  Culture. 

The  social  organism — state  or  city — 
should  through  its  laws  .afford  every  in- 
ducement to  the  teacher  who  is  possessed 
of  these  characteristics,  and  should  do  all 
possible  to  eliminate  those  who  do  not 
have  them.  The  social  and  professional 
recognition  awarded  the  teacher,  and  the 
“cash  register”  appreciation  shown  for  his 
work,  should  be  such  as  to  tempt  the  best 
and  the  strongest  men  and  women  into  the 
service  of  the  schools. 

The  merely  academic  examination  which 


is  now  required  is,  as  is  well  known,  no 
test  of  fitness  to  teach.  I hope  that  it  will 
be  a very  short  time  before  some  st.ate 
shall  have  the  courage  to  say  through  its 
school  legislation  that  after  a certain  date, 
sufficiently  remote  to  be  equitable,  no  one 
shall  be  permitted  to  teach  who  has  not 
had  .a  definite  amount  of  technical,  normal 
training. 

The  speaker  then  took  up  in  order  the 
five  elements  of  the  teacher’s  fitness  which 
he  had  named,  and  proceeded  to  discuss 
them  somewhat  in  detail.  By  “physique”  is 
meant  the  strong  physical  endowment 
which  is  the  necessary  substrate  for  the 
mental  activity  .and  nervous  vigor  that  the 
work  of  the  teacher  requires.  The  teacher 
must  have  soundness  and  wholesomeness 
of  body  and  comeliness  of  person,  because 
good  health  is  catching,  and  ugliness  a 
tresspass  upon  the  sensitiveness  of  the 
children.  The  state  should  permit  no  one 
to  teach,  and  the  norm.al  school  should  ad- 
mit no  one  as  a student  who  cannot  show  a 
clean  bill  of  health,  a radiant  vitality,  a 
resilient  physique. 

Personality,  the  second  requisite  of  the 
teacher,  is  indefinable,  yet  everyone  recog- 


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AUDITORIUM  OF  EWING  HALL 


nizes  and  appreciates  it.  It  is  aided  by,  but 
is  by  no  means  dependent  upon  physique. 
Many  men  who  had  no  physique  had  strong 
and  inspiring  personality.  And  it  is  the 
personality  of  the  teacher  that  abides  long- 
est in  the  consciousness  of  the  pupil  and 
that  has  the  greatest  influence  upon  him. 
Reference  was  made  to  the  method  in  use 
in  the  State  Normal  School  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, for  determining  the  personality  of  the 
would-be  teacher,  and  to  eliminate  those 
who  do  not  possess  it. 

There  are  two  possible  positions  which 
the  normal  school  may  assume  towards  the 
factor  of  scholarship  in  the  teacher’s  equip- 
ment. A certain  amount  of  scholarship  may 
be  required,  the  norm,al  school  building  its 
technical  work  upon  this;  or  the  normal 
school  may  make  it  a part  of  its  work  to 
give  the  necessary  scholarship  as  well  as 
the  professional  training.  This  question 
has  had  much  discussion  in  this  country, 
but  the  common  practice — and  it  is  .a  good 
one — is  that  the  normal  school  should  do 
academic  work.  A reciting  knowledge  of  a 
subject,  which  is  all  th.at  the  student  ac- 
quires in  a high  school,  is  by  no  means 


sufficient  as  a teaching  knowledge  of  the 
subject.  Hence  the  necessity  that  .a  normal 
school  should  do  academic  work — it  is  in- 
dispensable. 

The  work  of  the  normal  school  culminates 
in  its  effort  to  impart  to  the  teacher  the 
technique  of  his  profession.  There  must 
be  not  only  the  instruction  in  psychology 
and  its  various  application  in  pedagogy — 
child-study,  methodology,  and  educational 
economy — but  there  must  be  much  .and  most 
careful  training,  under  close  supervision 
and  criticism,  in  the  actual  practice  of  the 
art  of  teaching.  The  material  equipment 
of  the  normal  school  for  doing  this  work 
should  consist  of  a model  school,  wherein 
the  student  will  have  opportunity  to  observe 
the  work  of  experts  and  to  study  its  nice- 
ties; and  a pr.actice  school  wherein  the 
pupil-teacher  will  have  constant  practice  in 
the  art  of  teaching,  done  under  the  eye  of 
friendly  and  helpful  criticism.  It  is  need- 
less to  say  that  no  person  should  be  granted 
a certificate  or  diploma  of  a professional 
character  who  fails  to  come  up  to  a very 
high  standard  in  the  practice  school. 

Finally,  the  teacher  must  have  culture. 


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“the  aroma  of  learning.”  This  culture,  in- 
definable but  real,  is  all  the  more  necessary 
in  those  who  are  to  mould  the  future  of  the 
children,  beeaues  in  this  day  we  may  see 
on  every  side  the  tendency  toward  a crass 
materialism,  which  cares  little  for  the  gent- 
ler refinements  of  the  spirit. 

Closing,  the  spe.aker  said,  “These  are  the 
endowments  and  qualities  to  the  searching 
out  and  nourishing  of  which  a splendid 
building  is  this  day  dedicated  and  devoted, 
and  those  who  shall  labor  in  it  are  today 
reconsecrated.  Here  will  be  carried  out, 


which  to  keep  alight  the  holy  flame  of  a 
noble  enthusiasm  for  service  to  the  Srate — 
the  highest  service — the  service  of  a 
teacher.” 


Address  by  Gen.  C.  H.  Grosvenor 

Delivered  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Carnegie  Library 
Building,  Ohio  University,  June  14,  1905. 


Mr.  Chairman,  Gentlemen  of  the  Building 
Committee,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 


DEAN  WILLIAMS'S  CLASSES  IN  SCHOOL  MANAGEMENT  AND  ADMINISTRATION 

IN  FRONT  OF  THE  DEAN'S  HOME 


with  a faithfulness  of  detail  .and  an  attain- 
ment of  results  scarcely  more  than  hinted 
at  in  the  rough  draft  I have  presented,  all 
the  suggestions  that  I could  possibly  make, 
and  more. 

In  Persia  there  are  temples  in  which  a 
sacred  flame  is  kept  constantly  burning  by 
devotees.  There  must  be  lighted  the  s.acri- 
ficial  fires  of  those  who  administer  the  re- 
ligious rites  and  ceremonies  of  the  State. 
Here,  this  building  shall  be  a temple  in 


1 APPEAR  before  you  today  in  a dual  ca- 
pacity. I propose  to  make  a speech 
for  a gentleman  who  is  absent  and 
then,  perhaps,  add  a few  words  of  my  own. 

The  distinguished  President  of  the  Ohio 
University  requested  me,  about  the  middle 
of  April,  to  write  to  Mr.  Carnegie  p,nd  invite 
him  to  be  present  on  this  auspicious  occa- 
sion, and  to  speak  to  the  assemblage  here 
at  the  dedication  of  this  beautiful  building. 
The  date  fixed,  the  middle  of  June,  rendered 


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it  impossible  for  Mr.  Carnegie  to  be  present, 
and  I received,  in  response  to  my  invitation, 
a letter  as  follows: 

“Andrew  Carnegie, 

2 East  91st  Street. 

April  17,  1905. 

Hon.  C.  H.  Grosvenor, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Dear  Sir:  — 

Mr.  Carnegie  h.as  received  yours  of  April 
15th,  and  is  delighted  to  hear  that  the 
library  is  nearing  completion.  He  says  as 
to  appointing  a gentleman  to  go  out  and 
speak,  he  appoints  his  friend,  General  C. 
H.  Grosvenor,  M.  C.,  for  whom  he  is  willing 
to  be  fully  responsible. 

Respectfully  yours, 

Jas.  Bertram, 

Private  Secretary.” 


men  of  New  England  who  aided  in  the 
establishment  of  liberty  and  enlightenment 
in  the  Northwest  Territory  ordained  that 
religion,  morality,  and  education  should  be 
fundamental  ideas  in  the  new  territory,  and 
set  apart  here  two  townships  of  land  as  a 
perpetual  endowment  for  an  educational  in- 
stitution, the  presence  of  which  in  the  town 
of  Athens  we  boast  of  today.  It  was  fitting, 
therefore,  in  the  bestowal  of  the  great  lib- 
erality of  Mr.  Carnegie,  that  a library  for 
the  benefit  of  the  public  should  be  estab- 
lished in  the  town  of  Athens.  There  could 
not  have  been  found  upon  the  map  of  the 
Northwest  Territory  a more  fitting  place. 
There  could  not  have  been  found  on  that 
map  a constituency  more  appreciative  than 


3ISb$l33B 

RESIDENCE  OF  PRESIDENT  ALSTON  ELLIS 


It  is  in  compliance  with  this  suggestion 
that  I speak  briefly  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Car- 
negie and  in  celebration  of  the  day. 

It  would  seem  that  no  more  appropriate 
place  for  the  erection  of  a public  library, 
free  to  the  people  of  the  vicinity,  could  be 
selected  than  the  town  of  Athens  and  the 
vicinity  of  the  Ohio  University.  Away  b.ack 
at  the  beginning  of  the  19th  Century  the 


is  this  constituency.  The  Ohio  University 
has  struggled  long  and  faithfully  to  supply 
the  needs  of  the  communities  in  Ohio  with 
the  facilities  for  their  education  and  has 
succeeded  admirably,  .and  today  it  is  the 
boast  of  our  people  that  the  University  is 
in  better  condition  than  for  many  years  and, 
indeed,  possesses  signs  of  prosperity  and 
assurances  of  growth  which  place  it  in  the 


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font  rank  of  Ohio  colleges.  That  this  pres- 
tige will  be  maintained  we  have  every  reas- 
onable assurance.  So  it  was  befitting  that 
Mr.  Carnegie,  in  looking  about  him  for  loca- 
tions where  he  should  invest  his  liberal 
contributions,  should  have  selected  Athens 
as  one  of  the  places. 

In  arranging  for  the  erection  of  this  build- 
ing and  the  endowment  of  this  libr.ary, 


versity — may  their  tribe  increase — but  for 
the  good  people  of  the  town  of  Athens  and 
vicinity;  and  it  was  an  exceedingly  pleasant 
episode  when  the  distinguished  President  of 
the  University  co-operated  as  he  did  to  ar- 
range the  terms  upon  which  this  donation 
was  accepted,  in  such  .a  manner  as  to  insure 
for  all  time  that  there  should  be  no  aggres- 
sive monopolistic  action,  and  that  the  public 


ALSTON  ELLIS,  President  Ohio  University 


great  care  was  taken  that  there  should  be 
no  monopoly  of  control  or  use  that  would 
involve  the  exclusion  of  any  persons  resi- 
dent within  the  neighborhood  who  would 
make  use  of  this  institution,  and  who  would 
appreciate  the  beneficence  of  the  donation. 
So,  then,  I am  authorized  by  Mr.  Carnegie 
to  say  that  this  library  is  a public  library 
not  alone  for  the  students  of  the  Ohio  Uni- 


and  the  University,  including  the  Normal 
College,  and  all  of  us  should  have  an  inter- 
est in  this  great  library. 

So,  speaking  for  the  generous  donor,  I 
congratulate  you  today  that  you  have  so 
judiciously  expended  the  generous  gift  of 
Mr.  Carnegie  that  no  injurious  failure  of 
contractor  or  building  committee  has  tar- 
nished the  fair  name  of  the  town,  and  that 


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THE  MIRROR 


THE  CABEEN  BOARDING  CLUB 


there  comes  from  the  hands  of  the  archi- 
tect and  contractor,  under  the  wise  super- 
vision of  the  building  committee,  a building 
of  such  perfection  in  art  and  such  a beauti- 
ful demonstration  of  the  fitness  of  our 
American  architecture. 

Thus  far  I have  spoken  as  might  well 
have  been  spoken  by  Mr.  Carnegie  himself. 
Thus  far  I have  spoken  as  he  would  have 
had  me  speak,  and  now  m.ay  I not  turn 
aside  and  speak  a few  words  of  comment 
upon  the  character  and  genius  of  Andrew 
Carnegie? 

Andrew  Carnegie  was  born  in  Scotland. 
He  claims  to  be  proud  of  much  that  is 
Scottish  now,  but  the  fact  that  he  left 
Scotland  and  came  to  America  and  became 
a citizen  of  America  and  married  an  Amer- 
ican wife,  is  evidence  sufficient  to  my  mind 
that  he  is  more  an  American  than  a Scotch- 
man. He  is  an  exhibition,  an  object  lesson, 
of  the  wonderful  things  that  can  be  done 
by  individual  effort  in  America.  He  is  s.aid 
to  be  worth  an  enormous  sum  of  money,  but 
no  man  ever  laid  at  the  door  of  Andrew 
Carnegie  the  imputation  that  he  was  not  an 


GEN.  CHARLES  H.  GROSVENOR 


THE  MIRROR 


13 


honest  man,  or  that  he  had  ever  acquired 
one  dollar  by  means  that  could  be  justly 
criticised.  I do  not  me, an  to  say  that  he 
has  never  been  criticised,  but  I do  mean 
that  he  has  never  been  justly  criticised. 

This  is  not  the  time  nor  place  to  discuss 
the  ethical  questions  hovering  around,  in 
these  days,  the  possession  of  great  wealth 
by  individuals  nor  do  I,  on  this  occasion 
especially,  take  sides  for  or  against  the 
proposition  that  the  m.an  or  organization 
that  solicits  charity  and  benevolence  should 
first,  before  appropriating  the  offers  made 
by  the  wealthy,  stop  and  diagnose  the  char- 
acter of  the  processes  by  which  the  money 
came  to  the  hand  of  the  donor.  The  utter 
and  inconceivable  absurdity  of  the  proposi- 
tion is  so  generally  accepted,  that  it  is  bet- 
ter to  leave  individuals  to  the  enjoyment  of 
such  notoriety  as  they  may  have  acquired 
by  holding  to  the  doctrine  that  the  mode 
and  manner  and  method  by  which  money  is 
acquired  by  the  donor  attaches  to  and  runs 
with,  as  a lawyer  might  say,  the  gift  and 
taints  and  tarnishes  the  money,  and  follows 
the  funds  into  the  remotest  lines  of  distri- 
bution. Nothing  more  absurd  ever  has  been 


invented  than  the  proposition.  Nothing 
more  absurd  probably  ever  will  be  invented, 
and  it  shall  be  left,  so  far  as  this  occasion 
is  concerned,  to  the  h,appy  discoverers  of 
the  proposition  that  they  may  revel  in  their 
self-adoration,  while  the  commonsense 
people  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  world 
go  straight  forward  to  the  administration 
of  the  great  charities,  which  are  today  in 
the  United  States  largely  upheld  by  the 
men  and  women  who  h.ave  acquired  great 
wealth  by  their  genius  and  practical  wis- 
dom. 

Andrew  Carnegie  well  understood  that  an 
era  had  dawned  upon  the  United  States  and 
the  world  when  the  manufacture  of  steel 
was  to  be  one  of  the  greatest  elements  of 
national  and  individual  wealth  incident  to 
modern  civilization,  and  applying  his  great 
genius  to  the  subject  matter,  and  honestly 
devoting  a great  peroid  of  his  lifetime  to 
the  study  of  this  important  and  interesting 
subject,  he  placed  himself  in  the  front  rank 
of  the  men  who  have  developed  the  greatest 
industry  of  modern  times.  He  foresaw  that 
the  building  of  ships  was  to  be  ,an  era  of 
the  enlargement  of  steel  requisites.  He 


THE  PRACTICE  SCHOOLS  AND  THEIR  TEACHERS 


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THE  MIRROR 


McCO YJS  SUMMER  SCHOOL  BASE  BALL  NINE 


foresaw  th.at  structural  steel  in  the  building 
of  bridges  and  houses  and  factories  was  to 
become  a great  and  the  greatest  feature  of 
architectural  construction,  and  so  it  w.as 
that  combining  his  genius  of  organization 
with  his  genius  of  foresight,  he  amassed  a 
tremendous  fortune  and  thereby  accepted, 
or,  as  it  might  be  said,  there  was  forced 
upon  him,  a trusteeship,  mighty  in  its  con- 
sequences and  terrible  in  its  responsibili- 
ties. It  is  a great  thing  to  be  the  trustee 
of  four  hundred  million  dollars,  with  a 
heart  throbbing  with  genuine  love  and 
sympathy  for  human  beings.  It  is  a mighty 
responsibility  to  be  the  possessor  of  such 
a fortune  with  a conscience,  while  void  of 
offense  toward  God  and  man,  is  neverthe- 
less charged  with  its  own  conception  of 
duty  and  right,  with  a trusteeship  that 
shall  tell  for  good  or  evil  all  down  the 
coming  corridors  of  time.  It  required  wis- 
dom to  know  what  to  do  with  a trusteeship 
like  that.  The  decision  of  the  question 
would  be  mighty  in  its  consequences. 
There  was  here  a situation  out  of  which 
might  grow  enormous  weal  to  the  human 
family,  or  out  of  which  might  grow  the 


condemnation  of  an  administrator  of  such 
a trust  who  had  not  just  appreciation  of 
his  responsibility  to  God  and  to  the  human 
family. 

Andrew  Carnegie  accepted  the  responsi- 
bility with  a determination  to  execute  the 
duties  of  his  trusteeship  in  such  a manner 
as  that  the  acquisition  of  this  great  wealth 
would  be  a blessing  to  mankind,  and  ,an 


"two  of  a KIND.” 


THE  MIRROR 


15 


honor  to  the  race  to  which  he  belonged. 
Who  shall  say  that  he  has  faltered  or 
failed?  Let  him  who  has  better  filled  his 
post  of  duty  cast  the  first  stone.  Let  him 
who  has  better  met  the  demands  of  life 
upon  him  make  the  first  carping  criticism. 
Let  him  who  can  point  to  a better  illus- 
tration of  the  steward  of  the  manifold  bles- 
sings of  Heaven  first  analyze  the  life  of 
Carnegie  and  criticise  what  he  has  done. 

We  have  men  in  this  day  who  calmly  sit 
down  and  say,  “No  man  can  acquire  a for- 
tune like  that  and  not  h,ave  done  so  by 
disreputable  means.”  On  behalf  of  our 
benefactor,  that  statement  may  be  chal- 
lenged. What  disreputable  means  did 
Carnegie  use  by  which  he  amassed  this 
fortune?  While  he  has  been  gathering 
these  millions  and  while  he  has  been  aug- 
menting their  volume,  he  has  been  of  all 
men  one  of  the  most  charitable  of  his  race, 
not  altogether  in  the  great  things  that 
have  been  echoed  in  the  public  press,  but  in 
the  small  things,  the  loving  hand  th,at  has 
been  placed  upon  the  head  of  poverty  and 
has  lifted  up  the  victim;  the  man  who  has 
helped  the  young  to  struggle,  the  man  who 
has  privately  and  without  any  publication 


entered  the  home  of  the  suffering  and  ad- 
ministered to  present  want,  and  whispered 
the  word  of  encouragement  and  hope  in 
the  ears  of  the  perishing. 

This,  to  some  extent,  is  a fair  outline  of 
the  man  Carnegie.  He  is  not  alone  the 
administrator  of  a great  financial  fortune, 


THE  WEST  WINGERS 


but  he  is  the  genial,  sociable,  and  earnest 
citizen.  There  is  not  a subject-matter  of 
public  importance  under  discussion  in  the 
United  Kingdom,  Ireland,  and  Scotland,  or 
the  mighty  Republic  of  the  United  States 
to  which  Andrew  . Carnegie  is  not  alive. 


ATHENS  COUNTY  STUDENTS  AT  THE  SUMMER  SCHOOL 


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THE  MIRROR 


OTTAWA  COUNTY  CLUB  AT  DINNER,  JULY  4 


His  decision  upon  the  questions  thus  aris- 
ing, and  his  intelligence  upon  the  issues 
of  the  vast  subjects  of  debate  are  some- 
thing wonderful.  He  has  written  and  pub- 
lished books  for  the  information  of  people 
upon  topics  that  he  has  had  himself  to  do 
with,  .and  has  rendered  valuable  contribu- 
itons  to  the  literature  of  the  times. 

So  far  as  the  personnel  of  this  distin- 
guished man  is  concerned,  I will  appro- 
priate for  this  occasion  a portion  of  an 
article  from  the  London  Chronicle,  written 
by  one  who  knows  Carnegie,  and  I take 
pride  in  simply  saying  that  so  far  .as  my 
observation  of  the  man  in  Scotland,  sur- 
rounded by  his  guests  at.  Skibo,  and  under 
the  administration  of  his  household  by  the 
hand  of  his  genial  and  very  efficient  help- 
mate and  wife,  I can  certify  to  the  charac- 
teristics which  are  here  graphically  de- 
scribed: 

And  what  of  Mr.  Carnegie  himself?  I 
can  only  write  of  him  as  I have  seen  him. 
In  New  York  he  may  be  different  from 
wh.at  he  is  at  Skibo;  in  Pittsburg  he  may 
be  more  different  still.  The  business  side 
of  him  I am  entirely  unacquainted  with. 
The  only  Carnegie  I have  come  across  is 
not  the  steel  king,  but  the  man,  the  host, 
the  friend  and  comrade.  As  such  the  first 


thing  to  be  said  about  him  is  that  you 
would  never  suspect  him  of  being  Andrew 
Carnegie.  He  upsets  all  preconceptions; 
he  is  the  precise  antithesis  of  the  con- 
ventional “moneyed  man.”  A less  “pursey” 
man  it  would  be  impossible  to  imagine. 
He  is  not  harassed,  he  is  not  spoilt,  he 
seems  hardly  to  be  effected  by  his  colossal 
wealth.  A boy  of  fifteen  with  a half-crown 
in  his  pocket  and  a fishing  rod  in  his  hand 
could  not  be  more  free  from  care,  more 
chirpy  and  light-hearted  than  is  Mr.  Car- 
negie. 

If  I could  persuade  myself  that  the  own- 
ership and  administration  of  a fortune  in 
eight  figures  would  leave  me  as  young  and 
keen,  as  blithe  and  jolly,  as  ready  to  be 
interested  and  .as  chock-full  of  zest  in  life 
as  it  has  left  Mr.  Carnegie,  I should  be 
willing  to  become  a multi-millionaire  to- 
morrow. It  may  be  because  he  is  an  Amer- 
ican— Americans  seem  to  carry  about  them 
the  secret  of  perpetual  youth;  but  I think 
the  real  explanation  of  Mr.  Carnegie’s  per- 
ennial freshness  and  buoyancy  both  of 
heart  and  disposition  is  that  he  is  at  bot- 
tom a profoundly  simple  man. 

His  democracy  is  part  of  this  simplicity, 
and  how  democratic  he  is  it  is  difficult  to 
be  long  at  Skibo  without  le.arning.  All  on 


THE  MIRROR 


17 


his  estate  feel  him  to  be  one  of  themselves, 
perfectly  accessible,  and  genuinely  inter- 
ested in  all  their  doings.  He  has  the  happy 
knack  of  attracting  by  the  power  of  sym- 
pathy and  fellowship.  There  is  no  conde- 
cension  in  his  manner,  no  affectation  of 
patronage;  his  bearing  toward  all  with 
whom  he  comes  in  contact  is  simply  that 
of  a man  to  men.  I have  known  him  to  step 
before  a company  of  his  guests  and  public- 
ly compliment — with  his  hand  on  the  man’s 
shoulder — a member  of  the  household  staff 
who  has  just  given  an  exhibition  of  High- 
land dancing.  I have  known  him  to  leave 
a party  of  his  guests  kicking  their  heels  on 
the  high  road  while  he  engaged  a crofter’s 
son  in  earnest  and  intimate  talk. 

Mr.  Carnegie  radiates  satisfaction.  He 
is  satisfied  with  himself,  with  .all  he  does 
and  says,  with  the  world  at  large,  with 
Skibo,  in  particular;  but  the  satisfaction 
has  little  or  nothing  of  assertiveness  or 
vanity  about  it.  He  has  an  unaffected  en- 
thusiasm for  his  Scottish  home,  and  is, 
perhaps,  never  quite  so  contented  as  when 
showing  a friend  round  it  and  tracing  on 


the  gravel  his  plan  for  forming  a loch  here 
and  building  a dam  there  to  perfect  the 
fishing. 

Fishing  and  golf  are  the  hobbies  of  his 
life.  He  has  a private  golf  course  laid  out 
in  the  Skibo  estate,  and  within  the  last 
two  years  has  built  two  elaborate  salmon 
and  trout  hatcheries.  Billiards  he  plays, 
but  only  occasionally.  Cards  I have  never 
seen  him  touch,  though,  I believe,  whist 
may  be  included  in  his  pastimes.  He  never 
shoots,  leaving  that  to  his  guests,  but  his 
yacht  is  always  in  commission  during  his 
six-months’  residence  in  Skibo.  Motoring 
he  loathes  almost,  but  not  quite  so  much 
as  he  loathes  tobacco.  Of  music  he  c,an 
not  have  enough.  Every  morning  at  8 
o’clock  a piper  marches  round  the  castle, 
and  in  the  evening  plays  through  the  din- 
ner hour.  His  reveille  lasts  ’till  20  minutes 
past  eight.  Punctually  at  th.at  moment  he 
re-enters  the  castle;  punctually  at  that 
moment  the  organist  sits  down  to  the  or- 
gan in  the  hall;  and  guests  who  have  risen 
to  the  wild  skirling  of  the  pipes  descend  to 


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18 


THE  MIRROR 


brea.kf.ast  with  the  salutation  of  the  organ 
in  their  ears. 

Mr.  Carnegie,  I always  imagine,  would 
far  rather  be  knoyn  as  a social  and  po- 
litical philosopher  than  as  the  Steel  King. 
He  has  read  widely  and  perseveringly, 
traveled  less  as  a sight-seer  than  as  a stu- 
dent of  affairs,  and  rather  likes  to  lay  down 
the  law  on  all  things  human  and  divine. 

Now,  a word  as  to  the  work  that  Mr. 
Carnegie  has  done  in  the  matter  of  furnish- 
ing libraries  to  the  people  of  the  world.  Up 
to  the  first  of  January  last,  Mr.  Carnegie 
had  given  or  pledged  himself  to  give  1,290 
library  buildings  to  the  English-speaking 


than  eighteen  per  cent,  of  the  entire  popu- 
lation of  the  country. 

Since  the  first  of  January,  he  has  given 
$10,000,000  to  a fund  for  'the  caring  of  re- 
tired college  professors  and  several  million 
dollars  to  other  beneficences,  making  in  all 
more  than  $50,000,000  that  he  has  actually 
given  in  money  for  these  great  purposes. 

Who  can  tell  the  effect  upon  the  future 
of  the  country  and  the  world  of  what  Mr. 
Carnegie  has  done?  It  is  enough  to  say 
that  through  the  instrumentality  most 
potent  for  good  to  the  common  people  of 
the  country  he  has  given  a sum  of  money 
unequalled  by  any  other  giver  of  modern 
or  .ancient  times.  Who  shall  carp  at  and 


Slffc  Si 

IS 

CARNEGIE  LIARARY  BUILDING,  EAST  FRONT 


people,  and  of  these  779  are  in  the  United 
States.  The  aggregate  cost  of  these  build- 
ings to  Mr.  Carnegie,  the  share  of  the 
money  that  he  himself  puts  in,  is  $39,325,- 
240,  and  every  state  in  the  Union,  except 
Rhode  Island,  Mississippi,  and  Delaw.are, 
has  received  more  or  less  of  this  magnifi- 
cent donation.  Ten  hundred  and  forty- 
eight  towns  have  been  reached  with  1,290 
buildings,  thus  coming  in  touch  with  more 


criticise  Carnegie?  Let  him  who  is  without 
fault  among  you  cast  the  first  stone. 


Address  by  Hon.  C.  B.  Galbreath, 
State  Librarian 

What  is  this  iron  music 

Whose  strains  are  borne  afar? 
The  hammers  of  the  world-smiths 
Are  beating  out  a star. 


THE  MIRROR  19 


They  build  the  old  world  over, 

Anew  its  mould  is  wrought, 

They  shape  the  plastic  planet 
To  models  of  their  thought. 

This  is  the  iron  music 

Whose  strains  are  borne  afar; 

The  hammers  of  the  world-smiths 
Are  beating  out  a star. 

IN  HER  ISOLATION  and  independence, 
America  has  been  peculiarly  the  ar- 
chitect of  her  own  fortune.  But  the 
old  order  changeth.  Science  has  leveled 
mountains,  severed  continents,  eliminated 
time  and  annihilated  space.  The  spirit  of 
this  electric  age  leaps  from  its  brazen  leash 
and  makes  the  air  its  swift  messenger  of  * 


cry  in  the  onward  march  shall  be  as  of  old, 
“We  must  educate,  me  must  educate!” 

How?  To  what  extent?  Will  the  in- 
struction of  our  common  schools  suffice? 
No.  Will  a course  in  the  academy  or  the 
high  school  answer?  No.  Will  the  tradi- 
tional curriculum  of  the  college  or  the  uni- 
versity meet  the  demand?  No.  The  first 
of  these  is  absolutely  necessary,  and  all 
constitute  a most  desirable  equipment,  but 
the  best  that  they  can  do  is  to  introduce  us 
to  the  great  school  of  life  where  experience 
shall  guide  and  books  shall  teach.  The  im- 
perious demand  of  the  present  is,  hold  what 
you  gain  in  school,  add  to  it,  and  to  the 


CARNEGIE  LIBRARY  BUILDING,  WEST  FRONT 


thoughts  to  distant  l.ands.  The  ocean  is 
no  longer  a barrier.  We  stand  face  to  face 
with  the  world — 'the  world  dedicated  as  at 
no  time  in  its  past  to  the  ruthless  dictum, 
“The  fittest  shall  survive.” 

In  her  progress  under  new  conditions  the 
Republic  will  hold  her  place  of  prestige 
and  power  not  by  gold,  or  steel,  or  super- 
iority of  race,  or  pride  of  birth,  but  by  in- 
tellectual vigor  and  prowess.  The  battle 


last  hour  of  your  life  keep  your  education 
up  to  date.  The  best  agency  for  that  im- 
portant work  is  the  free  public  library.  To 
the  youth  of  this  university  and  this  city, 
to  instructors  and  citizens  who  would  be 
students  always,  you  dedicate  this  temple 
of  learning. 

This  is  not  a fitting  occasion  for  remini- 
scence or  extended  history.  It  may  not  be 
amiss,  however,  to  recall  the  fact  that  one 


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THE  MIRROR 


of  the  earliest  libraries  northwest  of  the 
Ohio  river  was  established  within  the  pres- 
ent limits  of  this  county.  On  February  2, 
1804,  The  Western  Library  Association  was 
organized  at  Ames.  In  the  .annals  of  the 
state  it  has  become  famous  as  the  Coon- 
Skin  Library.  Thomas  Ewing,  the  elder, 
put  into  it  his  accumulated  wealth  of  ten 
coon  skins.  He  bears  eloquent  testimony 
to  the  value  of  this  collection  of  books. 
“The  Library  of  the  Vatican,”  he  declares, 
“was  nothing  compared  to  it,  and  there 
never  was  a library  better  read.”  It  was 
supported,  of  course,  by  subscription  of  its 
members.  The  free  public  library  was  not 
dreamed  of  in  that  day.  Dr.  Burns  is 


The  gre.atest  libraries  are  in  places  re- 
mote. There  is  the  Royal  Library  at  Berlin 
with  1,200,000  volumes;  the  Imperial  Li- 
brary at  St.  Petersburg  with  1,330,000  vol- 
umes; the  British  Museum  with  2,000,000 
volumes;  the  National  Library  at  Paris 
with  2,600,000  volumes. 

Those  who  have  visited  our  national  cap- 
itol  will  not  forget  the  Library  of  Congress. 
If  the  dome  of  the  magnificent  building  is 
somewh.at  abbreviated,  out  of  respect  to 
the  capitol,  ample  amends  are  made  for  this 
concession  by  interior  arrangement,  finish 
and  decoration.  Mosaic  floors,  graceful 
columns,  polished  marble  staircases,  fres- 
coed ceilings,  faultless  statuary,  rich  p.aint- 


RESIDENCE  OF  DEAN  WILLIAMS 


authority  for  the  statement  that  a portion 
of  that  early  library  h.as  been  merged  into 
the  collecion  that  is  to  occupy  this  build- 
ing. With  this  brief  reference  to  a local 
pioneer  enterprise,  we  pass  over  the  his- 
tory of  the  library  movement  in  state  and 
nation,  and  proceed  to  a brief  consideration 
of  some  of  the  prominent  features  of  the 
field  as  it  exists  today. 


ings,  legendary  scenes  in  bas-relief,  the 
work  of  artists  of  our  own  land — the  tri- 
umph of  American  genius,  all  unite  in  a 
creation  of  beauty  that  has  no  parallel  in 
the  world.  Collect  in  one  place  .all  libraries 
of  Ohio,  including  those  presented  by  An- 
drew Carnegie,  and  add  to  this  property 
our  State  University  and  the  State  Capitol 
Building  at  Columbus,  and  the  sum  total 


THE  MIRROR 


21 


would  be  less  than  the  cost  of  the  Con- 
gressional Library.  All  of  the  state  librar- 
ies in  the  Union  would  not  equal  it.  There 


United  States.  Printed  catalogue  cards,  at 
a trifling  expense,  go  to  every  library  that 
cares  to  get  them.  By  special  loan  arrange- 


HENRY  G.  WILLIAMS,  Dean  State  Normal  College,  Ohio  University 


it  stands  in*  stately,  unadorned  exterior 
symmetry,  the  largest,  costliest  and  safest 
structure  of  its  kind  ever  erected  on  this 
earth  since  time  began. 

On  the  shelves  of  this  treasury  of  liter- 
ature about  1,200,000  volumes  have  already 
been  arranged.  Under  the  guiding  hand  of 
Mr.  Putnam,  the  present  librarian,  its  influ- 
ence has  been  felt  in  every  part  of  the 


ment,  books  may  be  sent  across  the  conti- 
nent to  certain  designated  libraries  for  ref- 
erence use.  In  short,  this  library  has 
become  national  in  the  extent  of  its  ser- 
vice. No  one  complains  of  the  expense.  All 
agree  that  the  institution  is  worthy  of 
liberal  support.  We  would  not  change  it. 
We  are  justly  proud  of  it.  It  is  typical  of 
all  that  is  highest  and  best  and  most  en- 


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during  in  our  Americ.an  civilization.  It 
stands  as  a monument  to  things  that  are 
not  dead,  that  do  not  die. 

Coming  nearer  home  and  descending 
from  the  truely  great  to  the  relatively 
small,  we  have  the  State  Library  at  Colum- 
bus, now  numbering  over  100,000  volumes, 
and  through  its  system  of  loans  and  trav- 
eling libraries  serving  as  best  it  may  with 
its  facilities,  the  state  from  which  it  re- 
ceives its  support.  I am  pleased  to  know 
that  some  of  its  books  have  come  to  your 
city,  and  to  acknowledge  our  obligations  to 
instructors  in  this  university  for  their  aid 
in  extending  this  branch  of  library  activity 
to  other  p.arts  of  the  state.  The  State  Li- 
brary, under  present  conditions,  is  not  all 
that  it  ought  to  be.  Would  that  it,  like 
your  library,  might  have  a building  of  its 
own,  adequate  to  its  present  needs  and 
future  growth. 

But  your  interest  today  is  not  in  things 
remote.  The  Library  that  is  to  render  you 
the  most  substantial  service,  that  deserves 
your  most  cordial  support,  that  should  be 
an  object  of  pride  to  every  citizen  within 
the  entire  state  is  the  one  that  you  dedicate 


today.  Its  dual  character  is  unique  and 
most  fortunate.  What  better  place  for  in- 
structors, students  and  citizens  to  meet 
than  within  these  walls,  dedicated  to  the 
patronage  of  literature. 

The  dominating  influence  of  the  univer- 
sity means  some  things  that  are  vital  to 
the  success  of  the  library.  It  means  an 
administration  under  a qualified  and  exper- 
ienced librarian,  and  in  accordance  with 
approved  modern  methods.  It  mean|s  a 
careful  selection  of  books  by  those  who 
have  studied  our  literature  and  know  how 
to  sift  the  grain  from  the  chaff.  It  means 
the  building  up  of  an  institution  peculiarly 
.attractive  to  your  public  schools,  an  avenue 
from  them  to  the  university.  By  a union 
of  common  interests  you  will  avoid  need- 
less duplication  of  books,  and  secure  the 
most  efficient  service  at  the  minimum  ex- 
pense.- Thus  both  parties  to  this  enterprise 
are  benefited.  No  other  university  sup- 
ported by  the  state  can  point  to  such  a 
library  building;  no  other  city  in  the  state 
will  enjoy  such  library  privileges  at  so 
small  an  expense. 

While  you  have  lightened  the  burden  of 


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taxation  by  dividing  it,  you  are  reminded 
that  even  under  condition's  sio  fortunate 
the  item  of  expenditure  cannot  be  elimi- 
nated. We  are  told  that  the  public  library 
costs  money,  that  tax  levies  and  Carnegie 
Buildings  go  hand  in  hand.  This  is  true; 
but  there  are  two  sides  to  the  ledger.  The 
institutions  that  contribute  to  the  moral  up- 
building of  a community  .are  its  most  spec- 
ious asset.  Your  churches  add  to  the  value 
of  your  real  estate.  Good  schools  are  the 
best  advertisement  a city  can  have.  In 
enhanced  values  the  public  library  will 
pay. 

But  there  are  other  and  higher  consider- 
ations. Dollars  and  cents  cannot  measure 
progress  and  enlightenment.  The  free 
public  library,  properly  equipped  and  con- 
ducted, is  a messenger  of  both.  Its  value 
to  the  community  is  to  be  measured  by  the 
service  it  performs,  by  the  number  and 
quality  of  its  patrons.  Its  mission  is  to 
create,  nourish  and  perpetuate  a taste  for 
good  literature.  Pine  volumes  tastefully 
arranged  on  the  shelves  may  look  very 
well,  but  ito  help  the  world  they  must  get 
off  the  shelves — they  must  lose  something 


of  the  gloss  of  binding  in  the  comfort  and 
sunshine  and  information  and  inspiration 
that  they  shed  abroad.  It  is  the  well  worn 
volume  that  commands  our  respect.  If  it 
could  speak,  its  simple  story  would  be  to 
the  library  cause  a tribute  most  eloquent. 
The  books  and  the  people  must  meet.  To 
fail  to  get  them  together  is  to  fail  utterly. 

In  these  d.ays  the  accumulation  of  great 
fortunes  in  the  hands  of  the  few  finds  a 
measure  of  compensation  in  the  fact  that 
we  have  entered  upon  an  era  of  liberal 
giving.  I will  not  laud  the  great  Iron  King, 
whose  gifts  already  reach  beyond  the  enor- 
mous total  of  $100,000,000.  His  praises  fall 
from  tongues  more  eloquent.  Posterity  will 
spe.ak  of  his  philanthropy.  His  example  is 
contagious.  According  to  their  ability, 
men  of  means  are  giving  more  freely  than 
ever  before. 

But  today  you  dedicate  something  more 
than  the  gift  of  Mr.  Carnegie.  Back  of  it 
stands  the  pledge  of  the  city  and  the  uni- 
versity for  perpetual  support.  That  splen- 
did building  is  a testimonial  to  your  faith 
in  universal  education.  As  such  it  stands 
in  the  dawn  of  this  new  century.  Long 


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PICKAWAY  COUNTY  CLUB 


flourish  the  cause  that  it  is  to  serve. 
Pericles,  we  are  told,  invoked  the  genius  of 
Phidias  to  erect  on  the  citadel  of  the  Ath- 
ens of  Old  a statue  of  Minerva,  goddess  of 
wisdom,  patron  of  arts  and  arms.  On  the 


"CHAN”  AND  HIS  LADY  FRIEND 


acropolis  of  this  modern  Athens  you  h.ave 
reared  a temple  to  an  ideal  more  lofty  and 
enduring  than  the  Jove-born  divinity  of  the 
antique  world.  Above  it  stands  no  statue 
with  shield  and  upifted  spear,  but  within  it, 


unseen  yet  distinctly  felt  in  the  lives  of 
votaries,  the  spirit  of  wisdom  shall  dwell 
and  dispense  her  choicest  gifts.  This  work 
of  your  hands  shall  not  perish,  for  it  sig- 
nalizes the  onward  march  of  influences  en- 
dued with  a beneficent  immortality.  It 
stands  as  a monument  to  tilings  that  are 
not  dead — that  do  not  die. 


Address  of  Hon.  E.  0.  Randall 

WE  ARE  NOT  so  smart  as  we  think 
we  are;  there  are  others.  There 
have  b<g$fl  others.  A library  is  not 
a new  thing  under  the  sun.  The  University 
of  Pennsylvania  in  its  recent  explorations 
at  Nippur  in  thp  Province  of  Babylonia,  un- 
earthed, far  beneath  the  surface,  vast  cham- 
bers containing  a library  of  some  two  hun- 
dred thousand  books.  These  books  were 
made  perhaps  four  thousand  years  before 
Christ.  They  were  t.ablets  made  of  baked 
clay,  the  reading  matter  being  cuneiform  in- 
scriptions. There  were  books  on  science, 
art,  literature,  history,  school-books  and 


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FRANKLIN  COUNTY  CLUB 


legal  documents.  They  were  carefully 
classified  and  laid  away  in  shelves,  and 
running  around  the  room  about  the 
height  of  a table  w.as  a ledge  upon  which 
these  books  could  be  laid  as  the  reader 
would  take  them  down  to  peruse  their  con- 
tents. That  was  a library  of  bricks — a 
bric-<a-brac  library  six  thousand  years  old. 
So  you  see  there  have  been  other  pebbles 
on  the  be.ach.  But  this  is  the  age  pecu- 
liarly of  libraries.  The  phiilosophefis  of 
history  separate  the  progress  of  man  into 
ages,  such  as  the  Stone  Age,  when  man  in 
his  most  primitive  condition  knew  only 
enough  to  make  his  implements  of  war 
and  agriculture  from  the  rough  stones; 
then  the  Iron  Age.  when  he  had  learned 
enough  to  utilize  the  master  of  ores;  then 
the  Bronze  Age,  when  he  mixed  his  ores 
and  made  .a  pliable  composition  for  his 
utensils  of  domestic  and  industrial  use; 
and  then  we  have  the  Silver  and  Golden 
Ages,  and  the  Golden  Ages  of  literature  in 
Greece  and  Rome.  These  latter  were  ages  of 
books  and  literature.  The  two  great  move- 
ments of  modern  times  that  characterize 
the  advance  of  American  civilization  are 


the  origin  and  development  of  women’s 
clubs — not  the  broom-stick  or  the  rolling 


HON.  E.  O.  RANDALL 


pin*  not  the  vapid  and  inane  clubs  for 
bridge,  whist  and  progressive  euchre — the 


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clubs  for  literary  study  and  intellectual  de- 
velopment. And  second  the  library  move- 
ment, which  is  emphatically  the  significant 
feature  of  our  social  and  intellectual  life. 
The  growth  of  the  library  has  been  phe- 
nomenal. Statistics  show  that  in  1850 
there  were  about  seven  hundred  public  li- 
braries in  the  United  States,  with  some- 
thing like  two  million  books  in  those  librar- 
ies. Today  there  are  ten  thousand  librar- 
ies with  something  like  fifty  million  books 
and  pamphlets  therein.  Last  year  it  is  re- 
corded that  something  like  three  hundred 


orous  reading  proclivities  of  the  American 
It  is  related  that  one  day,  while  visiting 
the  Astor  Library  with  one  of  the  assist- 
ants. he  was  passing  through  one  of  the 
splendidly  appointed  reading  rooms,  when  he 
saw  seated  at  the  table  ,a  little  ragged  ur- 
chin from  the  street,  nine  or  ten  years  of 
age,  bare  footed,  his  chubby  arms  project- 
ing through  the  elbows  of  his  tattered 
sleeves,  his  dishevelled  head  resting  upon 
his  hand  as  he  was  intently  reading  a 
book.  Mr.  Arnold  said  to  the  attendant. 
“Do  you  permit  little  ragamuffins  of  the 


FIFTEENTH  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT 


million  books  were  drawn  from  those  li- 
braries and  taken  by  the  recipients  to  their 
homes  to  be  read,  an  average  of  four  books 
to  every  man,  worn, an  and  child  in  this 
country.  This  stupendous  fact  represents 
the  intelligence  and  mental  activity  of  our 
nervous  and  restless  life. 

When  Matthew  Arnold,  the  great  English 
writer  and  litterateur,  was  in  this  country 
lecturing,  he  stated  that  nothing  impressed 
him  as  did  the  American  library  feature; 
it  surpassed  anything  that  had  ever  been 
known  in  any  country  or  time — the  omniv- 


street  to  come  into  this  beautiful  library  and 
read  these  books?”  to  which  the  attendant 
replied,  “Why,  sir,  any  little  child  who  has 
the  intelligence  to  come  in  here  and  ask 
for  a book  will  be  attended  with  the  same 
courteous  service  .as  if  he  were  the  son  of  a 
Vanderbilt,  a Gould  or  an  Astor.”  “Well, 
I declare,”  said  Mr.  Arnold,  “Do  you  sup- 
pose he  understands  what  he  is  reading?” 
“Really,  I cannot  answer  that.  You  had 
better  ask  him,”  said  the  assistant.  Mr. 
Arnold  Approached  and,  leaning  over  the 
little  fellow’s  shoulder,  saw  that  he  was 


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perusing  the  pages  of  Weem’s  “Life  of 
Washington.”  “My  little  fellow,  what  do 
you  know  about  George  Washington?”  he 
asked.  And  that  little  American  from  the 
street  turned  his  bright  little  face — that  is, 
it  would  have  been  bright  if  it  had  been 
washed — to  the  countenance  of  that  great 
English  author  and  said,  “Well,  sir,  I know 
that  he  licked  the  British  pretty  bad.”  It 
is  said  that  the  conversation  ended  at  that 
point  and  that  Mr.  Arnold  passed  on  ex- 
claiming “extraordinary,  most  extraordi- 
nary!” And  so  it  is,  this  institution  of  the 


splendid  edifices  for  books  which  he  h.as 
scattered  with  the  liberality  and  magic  of 
some  Arabian  prince  throughout  this  fair 
land. 

But  remember,  my  young  friends,  it  is 
not  the  number  of  books  that  you  read  that 
will  benefit  you;  it  is  the  character  of  the 
books  you  study.  Nor  is  it  what  you  read, 
but  what  you  remember  that  will  help  to 
mould  your  character  and  improve  your 
mind.  Choose,  therefore,  carefully  the  few 
best  books,  the  masterpieces  of  literature, 
Remember  that  Abraham  Lincoln,  without 


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American  library,  extraordinary,  most  ex- 
traordinary. 

Mr.  Carnegie  states  that  when  he  decided 
some  years  ago  to  donate  portions  of  his 
vast  millions  to  some  worthy  cause  he 
chose  the  library  as  the  first  avenue,  be- 
cause he  believes  that  in  the  intelligence 
and  knowledge  of  the  American  is  the  chief 
safeguard  of  American  institutions  and  the 
perpetuity  of  our  republic.  The  library, 
he  says,  is  the  university  of  the  people,  it 
should  be  free  as  air  to  every  man,  woman 
and  child.  And  hence,  the  twelve  hundred 


school,  without  college,  in  his  humble  Ken- 
tucky cabin,  chiefly  obtained  his  early  edu- 
cation by  reading,  learning  and  inwardly 
digesting  “The  Bible,”  “Aesop’s  Fables.” 
“Robinson  Crusoe,”  Bunyan’s  “Pilgrims 
Progress,”  “A  History  of  the  United 
States,”  Weem’s  “Life  of  Washington,” 
and  the  Statutes  of  Indiana.  And  the  value 
which  he  placed  upon  these  books  may  be 
estimated  when  it  is  recalled  that;  his 
Weem’s  “Life  of  Washington”  was  one 
which  he  borrowed  from  a neighbor,  resi- 
dent some  miles  distant.  That  one  night 


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the  book  was  left  in  the  open  cr.ack  between 
the  logs  of  the  cabin  wall,  the  rain  came 
and  spoiled  that  book.  To  make  redress 
to  its  owner,  he  worked  several  days  on  the 
farm  of  the  owner.  Those  well  chosen 
books  directed  the  mind  of  the  immortal 
emancipator. 

This  library  building  which  you  so  proud- 
ly dedicate  today  should  be  the  ‘holy  ot 
holies’  of  your  college.  See  th.at  none  but 
the  best  books  enter  therein,  and  that  from 
those  books  you  patiently  and  reverently 
obtain  your  inspiration  as  the  Greeks  of 
old  drank  from  the  pure  and  sparkling 
waters  of  the  Pierian  fount.  Someone  has 
said,  “Libraries  are  the  wardrobes  of  liter- 
ature, whence  men,  properly  informed, 
may  bring  forth  something  for  ornament, 
much  for  curiosity,  and  more  for  use.” 


Address  of  Dan  Miilikin,  M.  D., 
Hamilton,  Ohio 

DR.  MILLIKIN’S  brief  introduction  led 
up  to  a quotation  of  the  sixty-fifth 
sonnet  of  Shakespeare : 

Since  brass,  nor  earth,  nor  stone,  nor  bound- 
less sea, 

But  sad  mortality  o’ersways  their  power, 
How  with  this  rage  shall  beauty  hold  a 
plea, 

Whose  action  is  no  stronger  than  a flower? 
O ! how  shall  summer’s  honey-breath  hold 
out 

Against  the  wreckful  siege  of  battering  days 
When  rocks  impregnable  are  not  so  stout, 
Nor  gates  of  steel  so  strong  but  Time  de- 
cays? 

O,  fearful  meditation!  where,  alack, 

Shall  Time’s  best  jewel  from  Time’s  chest 
lie  hid? 

Or  what  strong  hand  can  hold  his  swift 
foot  back? 

Or  who  his  spoil  of  beauty  can  forbid? 

O,  none,  unless  this  miracle  have  might, 
That  in  black  ink  my  love  may  still  shine 
bright. 

And,  after  all,  your  ink . is  the  only  last- 
ing thing.  A tanner,  even,  will  not  last 
very  long  in  the  ground;  pyramids,  temples, 
and  tombs  soon  crumble  above  ground;  the 
names  of  kings  and  other  wholesale  mur- 
derers perish;  but  literature,  whether  it 
be  on  bricks  and  tiles,  or  on  skins  or  on 
papyrus,  survives  and  gives  us  all  we  know 
of  antiquity. 

This  is  Flag  Day,  though  in  the  rush  of 
commencement  time  we  have  perhaps  for- 


gotten it.  I would  hate  myself  for  an  here- 
tic if  I could  be  brought  for  a moment  to 
admit  that  there  is  in  .all  the  world  any- 
thing so  precious  and  so  beautiul  as  our 
Old  Glory,  with  its  splendid  and  significant 
stars  and  stripes.  It  is  the  brief  record 
and  the  concrete  symbol  of  great  ideals.  It 
stands  for  the  brave  formative  period  of 
the  Great  Republic,  colonial  and  ante- 
colonial.  It  tells  me  of  great  welded  states 
fit  by  all  natural  resources  to  be  powerful 
empires.  It  stands  for  noble  mountain 
chains  and  sky-lifting  peaks,  for  majestic 


DR.  DAN  MILLIKIN 


rivers,  for  a coast  that  stretches  well-nigh 
from  the  tropics  to  the  pole.  It  waves  over 
happy  millions  of  men  .and  women  with 
blended  blood  from  all  lands,  and  full  of 
strange  energy  and  high  ambitions.  It  tells 
me  of  great  cities  teeming  with  life  and 
trade  and  commerce,  the  treasure-houses 
of  astounding  wealth.  It  tells  of  beauty 
and  bravery  .and  learning  and  virtue. 

And  other  symbols  there  are, — the  lotus, 
the  cross,  the  crescent, — full  of  profound 
meaning  that  reaches  over  long  ages,  over 


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lands  and  seas,  and  down  into  the  very 
deeps  of  the  human  soul. 

But  great  and  significant  as  any  symbol 
known  to  man  is  che  mere  cover  of  .a  book. 
What  care  I for  the  holiest  shrine  in  the 
world  with  its  collection  of  bones  and  trink- 
ets and  bits  of  rags  and  bejewelled  dolls? 
These  things  mean  much  to  those  who  puc 
much  reverence  into  them,  but  give  me  a 
library  of  the  ten  best  books  I know,  or  the 
thousand  best  books  you  know,  and  there 
will  I make  my  shrine.  I speak  this  not  as 


speak  th^  masters  speak  through  them. 
More  than  that,  they  speak  according  to 
your  will.  Shelley  shall  blaspheme  for  you 
,and  rail  like  an  anarchist,  or  he  shall  soar 
to  the  highest  and  divinest  reaches  of  in- 
spiration and  take  you  with  him  into  the 
empyrean.  Rousseau  shall  appal  you  with 
his  filth  and  his  essential  vice  or,  like  a 
seer,  he  shall  enlighten  and  inspire  you  as 
he  has  inspired  the  fathers  of  our  republic, 
the  great  philanthropists,  the  revolutionists 
in  French  literature,  and  the  later  eccle- 


LOWRY  BOARDING  CLUB 


a re.ader,  but  as  a worshipper.  What  said 
Petrarch  in  his  eloquent  letter  to  the  By- 
zantine ambassador  who  sent  him  a choice 
copy  of  Homer  in  the  original  tongue?  He 
said  to  the  donor  that  though  he  could  not 
read  the  book  he  had  placed  it  on  a shelf 
with  a copy  of  Plato,  also  in  Greek, — - the 
gre.atest  poet  beside  the  greatest  philoso- 
pher,— and  he  took  great  pride  and  comfort 
in  the  presence  of  these  “illustrious 
guests.” 

But,  in  point  of  fact,  few  books  are  mute. 
They  live  and  speak  to  us  and  when  they 


siastical  reformers.  The  great  story-tellers 
shall  weave  their  tapestries  at  your  com- 
mand. All  lands  and  ages  shall  pass  before 
you  when  from  these  near-by  shelves  you 
are  pleased  to  command  the  service  of  the 
great  historians.  The  biographers  shall 
show  you  the  very  secretest  springs  of  hu- 
man action. 

There  h^ve  been  great  prodigies  of  in- 
tellect too  shy  to  discourse  in  company  s.ave 
when  the  rare  mood  for  sweet  confidences 
was  on  them.  Yet  in  these  alcoves  you  may 
commune  with  them  at  your  pleasure.  Haw- 


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thorne  shall  come  out  of  his  cloister  for 
you.  Tennyson,  the  hater  of  Americans, 
shall  not  have  a mute  day  unless  you  desire 
it.  Lamb  shall  come  out  of  his  dumps  at  ,a 
wave  of  your  hand,  and  shall  sparkle  with 
wit  at  his  best.  Matthew  Arnold  shall  thaw, 
if  you  will  have  it  so.  ’Tis  a select  com- 
pany, made  up  of  these  shy  literary  gen- 
iuses; happy  .are  you  who,  through  the 
medium  of  these  books,  are  able  to  join 
that  precious  circle. 

Ahd  the  great  talkers,  they  also  are  yours 


that  is  the  infirmity  of  the  brilliant  conver- 
sationalists. Lamb  declared  that  he  was 
waylaid  by  Coleridge  who  had  himself  full 
of  metaphysics  .and  must  needs  pump  it 
into  the  first  victim.  Lamb  strove  to  break 
away,  for  he  was  due  and  overdue  at  the 
East  India  House  .and  he  had  a terrible 
reputation  for  tardiness  to  Jive  down.  The 
monologue  was  unbroken,  and  Coleridge, 
upon  some  prehensile  instinct  had  secured 
hold  on  a button  on  Lamb’s  coat.  Lamb 
vows  that,  in  his  desperation,  he  cut  the 


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to  command.  The  plague  of  great  talkers 
is  that  they  will  not  always  quit  betimes. 
You  know  the  story  of  the  old  Scotch  lady 
who  suffered  under  a long  sermon  wherein 
was  much  reiteration  and  recapitulation, 
and  who  was  approached  by  her  very  hun- 
gry and  impatient  man  of  all  work  who 
would  fain  be  driving  home.  “Is  he  na 
dune  yet?”  was  his  anxious  query,  from  a 
nearby  pew.  And  you  remember  the  old 
lady  answered  in  .a  stage  whisper  that  was 
meant  for  the  pulpit,  “Dune?  He’s  dune 
this  half  hour,  but  he  winna  stop.”  And 


button  from  the  coat  and  fled  away  to  his 
cleric.al  duties.  Returning  late  in  the  after- 
noon, he  discovered  the  monologist  still 
talking,  and  still  holding  the  button  be- 
tween finger  and  thumb  while  he  elucidated 
all  things  in  heaven  and  earth  that  were 
worthy  of  his  attention.  We  may  almost 
take  this  story  seriously  when  we  read  in 
a recent  biography  that  Wordsworth  went 
with  .a  friend  to  call  upon  Coleridge.  The 
ballast  was  thrown  out  and  the  conversa- 
tion at  once  soared  to  a high  plane,  far 
above  the  clouds,  and  Coleridge  doing  all 


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the  talking.  After  two  hours  and  more, 
during  which  Wordsworth  merely  nodded 
his  head  in  gentle  assent,  occasionally 
drawin'g  breath  for  a sentence  which  he 
was  not  permitted  to  utter,  the  callers  came 
away.  “I  do  not  think  that  I got  the  im- 


EDGAR  ERVIN.  FiELD  AGENT  OHIO  UNIVERSITY 


port  of  more  than  two  or  three  sentences 
uttered  by  Coleridge,”  said  Wordsworth. 

Rational,  well-advised  speech,  adapted  to 
the  audience  is  an  admirable  performance, 
but  how  impatient  the  talkers  are  when 
they  are  obliged  to  listen  to  it  1 In  his 
gentle  and  profoundly  poetic  way  Longfel- 
low was  a fine  talker,  but  Ifigginson  lets 
out  .a  painful  secret  of  the  Cambridge  circle 
when  he  tells  us  that  on  the  day  after  a 
visit  from  Dr.  Holmes,  Longfellow  always 
had  a bad  headache.  The  volubility  of 
Holmes  w.as  amazing;  his  wit,  if  nothing 
else,  commanded  attention;  his  positive 
flow  of  spirits  fin.ally,  according  to  the  laws 
of  electricity,  bred  a negative  depression  in 
his  auditors. 

It  was  a master  of  conversation  who  let 
loose  the  bitterness  of  his  soul  when  he 
had  something  to  say  about  Macaulay/’s 
“brilliant  flashes  of  silence.”  And  you  know 
that  Rogers  gave  his  splendid  dinners  part- 
ly that  he  might  have  the  opportunity  of 
talking  and  yet,  poor  man,  he  was  some- 
times jealous  of  his  guests.  Once  upon  a 


time,  when  dinner  was  about  to  be  served, 
he  saw  Robinson,  a tardy  guest,  approach- 
ing. “If  any  one  of  you  h.as  anything  to  say, 
I recommend  him  to  say  it  now,  for  Robin- 
son is  coming  and  there  will  be  no  oppor- 
tunity later.”  Robinson  had  crossed  his 
way  too  often. 

A former  president  of  the  United  States 
was  challenged  as  to  his  second  marriage, 
whereat  he  broke  out  with  a flat  declara- 
tion that  he  w.as  old  enough,  and  none  too 
old,  to  know  his  own  mind.  He  married  the 
woman  of  his  choice  and  all  debate  was  cut 
off  by  that  fact  alone.  Moreover,  she  was 
the  only  woman  he  had  ever  met  who  would 
keep  silence  when  he  wanted  to  think!  But 
you  who  have  access  to  this  library  have 
chosen  as  wisely  as  the  old  President.  The 
great  talkers  shall  talk  while  you  will,  and, 
when  your  time  comes  to  think,  you  close 
the  book,  perhaps  with  a finger  between 
the  leaves  to  hold  the  clue,  and  the  dear 
companion,  like  the  old  president’s  bride, 
is  mute  until  you  are  ready  to  converse 
again.  You  shall  have  wisdom  without 
satiety;  you  sh.all  be  entertained  when  you 
will,  and  instructed  when  you  will ; you 
shall  suffer  no  pang  of  jealousy;  you  shall 
take  no  headache  from  the  brilliancy  and 
the  intellectual  gymnastics  of  Holmes  and 
his  kinsfolk.  i 


NEW  COURSE  OF  STUDY 


I am  more  and  more  impressed  with  the 
enormous  power  of  books.  Somewhere  on 
your  shelves  you  have,  or  will  have,  .a  book 
which  discusses  the  fifteen  decisive  battles 


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of  the  world,  and  I dare  say  that  there  are 
now  some  historians  who  are  anxious  to 
add  three  or  four  to  that  number  and  de- 
scribe eighteen  battles,  or  a score,  that 
have  .altered  the  whole  destiny  of  nations 
and  the  whole  course  of  history.  During 
the  recent  alleged  war  with  Spain,  when 
the  firebells  were  ringing  in  my  town,  and 
the  factory  whistles  were  all  blowing  them- 
selves hoarse,  just  because  a few  young 
men,  adventurous  or  unemployed  were 
about  to  leave  the  town  under  enlistment 
and  go  down  to  Florida  to  cope  with  the  in- 


only  trivial  incidents  in  the  course  of  great 
intellectual  changes.  I told  him  that  the 
man  or  the  woman  who  altered  the  mind  of 
the  people,  by  writing  their  stories,  or 
their  songs,  or  their  sermons,  or  their  po- 
litical platforms,  or  their  statutes, — these 
men  and  women  were  making  history.  More 
than  that,  I led  him  up  to  the  idea  that 
wherever  good  men  and  women  were  teach- 
ing or  nursing,  or  making  things  grow,  or 
turning  raw  material  into  forms  of  beauty 
or  of  use,  there  they  were  making  history. 
It  is  hard  to  get  anything  into  a reporter, 


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sect  life  of  that  state  and  incidentally 
struggle  with  the  palmettoes  and  with 
typhoid  fever,  I met  a reporter  who  was  in 
a great  state  of  exhilaration  and  who  ruf- 
fled me  very  much  by  saying  tflat  we  were 
making  history  at  a great  rate.  I stood  him 
up  for  a little  instruction.  I told  him  that 
a -bubbling  fizz  in  a very  small  teapot  never 
m.ade  history.  I strove  to  give  him  the 
idea  that  the  great  battles  of  the  world, 
seen  from  a distance,  or  seen  near  at  hand 
through  enlightened  eyes,  were  only  brawls. 


but  I am  proud  to  s.ay  that  my  man  went 
his  way  with  a new  conception  of  the  truth 
that  the  great  sociological  forces  act  with 
a silence  and  a deliberateness  that  bespeak 
their  power,  and  that,  as  the  great  world- 
forming cosmic  and  geologic  forces  .accom- 
plish little  or  nothing  by  cataclysms,  so  in 
the  world  of  mind,  which  is  the  world  of 
man,  the  very  field  of  history,  the  spec- 
tacular “epochs”  are  all  predetermined  by 
forces  that  have  acted  quietly  and  irresist- 
ibly beneath  the  surface  of  things. 


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33 


And,  having  rehearsed  this,  you  will  un- 
derstand me  when  I say  that  the  man  who 
establishes  a library,  such  as  you  have 
built  here,  is  one  who  makes  more  history 
than  any  war-lord  or  admiral  or  commander 
of  hosts,  or  other  wholesale  homicide;  or 
to  put  it  more  strongly,  yet  within  bounds, 
the  man  who  writes  a good  book  has  made 
more  history  than  the  statesman  who 
makes  a treaty  based  upon  an  exhibition  or 
a threat  of  brute  force. 

And  my  high  estimate  of  books  as  great 
factors  in  the  developement  of  the  r.ace  is 


or  reciting  with  any  preceptor.  The  simple 
truth  is  that  the  boy  had  read  a little  en- 
cyclopedia of  medicine  through  and  through 
until  he  had  worn  it  nearly  to  ribbons.  The 
forlorn  little  book  had  made  him  a doctor 
of  medicine,  and  the  medic.al  college  could 
only  do  a little  sandpapering  and  varnish- 
ing to  fit  him  for  its  diploma.  A great  story- 
teller would  be  informed  upon  a matter  of 
Roman  life;  he  would  have  it  vividly  pre- 
sented to  his  mind  so  that  his  imagination 
might  lay  hold  upon  it.  Knowing  no  book 
that  could  help  him,  he  appealed  to  Spof- 


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augmented  when  I reflect  that  there  is  no 
absolute  trash  in  book  form.  One  of  the 
wisest  men  I ever  knew  had  entered  the  in- 
tellectual world  through  the  gateway  of  my 
profession,  and  he  afterward  became  a mas- 
ter of  men  and  a statesman.  When  he 
went  to  medical  college  he  was  informed 
that  he  was  well  schooled.  He  protested 
that  he  had  never  been  to  a medical  col- 
lege of  any  sort.  He  was  told  then  that  he 
must  have  enjoyed  the  guidance  and  the 
instruction  of  ,a  most  excellent  preceptor. 
He  confessed  that  he  had  done  no  reading 


ford  and  that  marvellous  man  straightway 
told  him  to  go  over  to  Boston,  enter  such 
and  such  an  alcove,  stoop  to  the  second 
shelf  from  the  floor,  and  there  at  the  ex- 
treme end  of  the  shelf,  on  the  left  hand 
side,  find  the  book  he  wanted.  “No,”  said 
the  author,  “give  me  the  title  of  the  book 
and  I will  ask  the  librarian  for  it.”  Said 
Spofford,  “That  cannot  be.  The  book  is 
falling  to  pieces;  the  title  has  disappeared; 
the  author  is  unknown;  the  librarian  does 
not  know  the  book  is  there.”  So  our  author. 
Lew  Wallace,  went  over  to  Boston,  found 


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the  book,  culled  the  facts  he  needed,  and, 
as  the  literary  craftsmen  s.ay,  from  it 
he  obtained  the  setting  and  the  atmosphere 
for  a vivid  and  famous  passage  in  one  of 
his  books.  Patiently  that  little  nameless 
wreck  of  a book  had  endured,  until  its  day 
came  at  l.ast,  and  it  was  proud  to  be  indis- 
pensable. There  is  no  trash  on  any  shelf. 
The  most  vapid  and  inane  tracts,  “Tokens,” 
“Repositories,”  county  histories,  f.amily 
histories,  regimental  histories,  almanacs 
and  directories,  become  valuable  to  some 


beautifully  Lowell  has  said  of  Keats,  “In 
1812,  when  he  was  in  his  seventeenth  year, 
Mr.  Charles  Cowden  Clarke  lent  him  the 
Faerie  Queen.  Nothing  that  is  told  of  Or- 
pheus or  Amphion  is  more  wonderful  than 
this  miracle  of  Spencer’s  transforming  a 
surgeon’s  apprentice  into  a great  poet. 
Keats  learned  at  once  the  secret  of  his 
birth,  and  henceforward  his  indentures  ran 
to  Apollo  instead  of  Mr.  Hammond.  Thus 
could  the  muse  defend  her  son.  It  is  the 
old  story — the  lost  heir  discovered  by  his 


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one,  some  day,  and  from  the  very  hour  of 
their  issuance  they  give  the  very  color  of 
the  times  and  have  a value.  And  as  for  the 
better  books,  who  shall  set  limits  to  the 
widening  influence  of  one  of  them?  It  was 
a little  copy  of  Burns  th.at  made  a poet  of 
Whittier.  Lincoln’s  whole  destiny  seems 
to  have  been  bent  into  its  ultimate  chan- 
nels by  two  or  three  borrowed  books. 
Time  and  again  it  has  happened  that  a re- 
ligious book,  or  a little  tract,  has  fallen  on 
prepared  ground  and  h.as  led  to  a personal 
revolution  in  character  and  conduct.  Most 


aptitude  for  what  is  gentle  and  knightly.” 

So,  I congratulate  you,  good  people  of 
the  University  of  this  be.autiful  town,  not 
alone  that  you  will  have  here  encyclopedias 
which  will  serve  you  as  handy  tools  and 
faithful  judges  and  literary  secretaries, — not 
alone  that  you  have  books  to  lead  you  into 
the  intellectual  life,  not  alone  th;at  you  have 
books  in  this  library  that  will  amuse  you 
by  their  highly  ordered  companionship  and 
entertainment,  but  that  you  have  single 
books  waiting  here  with  sublime  patience. 


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until  they  shall  find  their  affinities  in  bud- 
ding genius  and  talent. 

And  here  I pause,  reluctantly,  for  there 
is  a world  more  to  say  of  books.  I stand 
in  wonder  at  this  latest  development  of 
philanthropy.  To  me  nothing  is  more  im- 
pressive than  this  marvellous  spectacle  of 


wealth  for  the  highest  good  of  mankind, 
confessing  that  nothing  is  his  or  mine  in 
^oe,  but  th;at  all  that  we  hold  is  held  in 
trust  for  all  who  walk  this  earth.  This 
finest  evolution  of  philanthropy  comes  out 
of  din  and  darkness  and  peril,  and  soot  and 
’•rime  and  sweat.  It  is  Sampson’s  riddle 


HON,  C.  B.  GALBREATH,  STATE  LIBRARIAN.  COLUMBUS,  OHIO 


men  delving  in  the  earth  for  ores  and  fuel 
and  fluxes,  to  be  compounded  in  great 
smelters  where  the  very  bones  of  the  earth 
are  coerced  to  yield;  the  most  precious 
of  all  met.als.  And  one  may  well  stand 
wrapt  in  the  wonder  of  it  when,  in  the  vast 
rolling  mills,  great  ingots  are  crushed  into 
new  forms  by  flying  rolls,  while  writhing 
serpents  of  iron  or  steel  “come  hissing  hot 
from  hell,”  find  themselves  mastered  by 
the  craft  and  the  power  of  men  who  lack 
little  of  gianthood.  And  I wonder  at  the 
prodigious  wealth  piled  up  by  the  master 
of  this  titanic  metallurgy;  and  again  I find 
it  little  less  than  wonderful  that,  with  the 
meekness  of  a poor  husbandman  sowing 
precious  seed,  he  carefully  scatters  his 


again:  “Out  of  the  eater  came  forth  meat; 
out  of  the  strong  came  forth  sweetness.” 


Sermon  by  Dr.  Schenk 

1CALL  YOUR  ATTENTION  to  a man, 
an  incident  in  the  man’s  life  and  an 
application. 

The  man  is  the  Christ;  the  incident  re- 
cords the  bestowal,  on  the  part  of  the 
Christ,  of  power  and  privilege  upon  a hu- 
man soul;  the  application  is  for  you  young 
men  and  women  of  power  ,and  privilege. 

The  aim  is  not  scholastic  but  spiritual. 
There  is  no  other  message  so  fundamental 
to  man’s  need.  All  knowledge,  all  life  is 
included  in  this.  If  man  be  not  a spiritual 


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being  and  the  world  does  not  exist  for 
God’s  culture  of  the  human  soul,  neither 
man  nor  earth  have  any  rational  explana- 
tion, and  the  picture  which  Lowell  saw  in 


REV.  C.  E.  SCHENK,  D.  D.,  HAMILTON,  OHIO 


Belgium  of  angels  attempting  to  stay  the 
creative  hand  of  God  expresses  what  ought 
to  have  happened.  But  if  God  is  and  we 
are  His  children,  and  if  the  culture  of  im- 
mortal souls  is  His  highest  work,  then  both 
will  and  love  within  us  should  answer  to 
His  sublime  purpose,  and  nothing  is  left 

“For  us,  save  in  growth 

Of  soul,  to  rise  up,  far  past  both, 

From  the  gift  looking  to  the  giver, 

And  from  the  cistern  to  the  river, 

And  from  the  finite  to  infinity, 

And  from  man’s  dust  to  God’s  divinity.” 

But  from  God’s  divinity  we  trace  our 
own,  and  thus  the  study  of  the  spiritual  is 
life’s  fundamental  object.  Now,  to  study 
the  spiritual  is  to  study  the  Christ,  and  I 
therefore  invite  your  attention. 

I — To  the  Man. 

E.ach  age  has  produced  many  masters, 
but  all  the  ages  combined  have  produced 
but  one  Master.  To  use  the  simple  phrase, 
‘the  Master’  is  to  be  understood  as  speak- 
ing of  the  man  of  Nazareth.  Jesus  and 
Master  are  synonomous  terms.  This  is  no 
mere  sentiment  of  the  religionists,  but  the 


verdict  of  history  and  the  profound  convic- 
tion of  humanity.  Is  humanity  deceived  or 
has  Christ  the  right  to  the  title?  The  di- 
sciples called  him  M.aster,  but  they  were 
very  simple  minded  men.  The  world  has 
grown  infinitely  in  wisdom  and  in  ability 
to  measure  manhood  since  their  day.  Nico- 
demus  called  him  Master,  but  he  was  a 
petty  ruler  over  a petty  kingdom,  and  the 
kingdoms  of  the  world  have  greatly  en- 
larged. The  rich  young  ruler  called  him 
Master,  but  riches  provide  for  life  today 
what  they  could  not  buy  then.  Is  there 
anything  about  Jesus  that  should  compel 
truth  seeking  men  and  women,  the  rulers 
of  the  earth  and  all  riches,  to  bow  at  His 
feet  and  call  him  Master?  Bishop  Green, 
in  one  of  his  sermons,  lays  down  three 
tests  by  which  we  may  know  a master 
when  he  comes.  He  is,  says  he,  born,  not 
made;  he  carries  within  himself  the  knowl- 
edge of  his  mastery;  and  lastly  he  comes 
dedicating  to  others’  good  the  power  he 
possesses.  In  other  words,  the  true  master 
possesses  power,  realizes  his  possession, 
dedicates  it  to  God  and  humanity.  We  be- 
lieve the  tests  will  hold.  The  master  is 
not  a creation  of  the  soil  or  of  environment. 
He  is  God’s  gift.  He  answers  to  Carlyle’s 
definition  of  a great  man.  He  is  a light- 


HENRY  COUNTY  GROUP 

Beginning  at  the  left.  (1)  Prof.  Treudley;  (2)  Lulu 
Bradley;  (3)  Abbie  Rye;  (4)  Clara  Voigt;  (5)  Muriel 
Tripp. 


ning  out  of  Heaven,  and  the  rest  of  hu- 
manity wait  for  him  like  fuel. 

Again,  the  master  realizes  his  power.  He 
has  a special  revelation  of  power  and  duty 
from  which  he  can  not  escape.  He  is  no 


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imitator  but  a pathfinder;  no  mediocre 
working  on  a model,  but  a new  power  let 
loose  in  the  world.  He  has  Heaven’s  illu- 
mination of  his  own  soul,  and  having  found 
himself  has  found  his  world.  His  faith  is 
not  only  in  God  and  his  fellows,  but  in 
himself.  God’s  purposes  have  ignited  in 
his  soul,  .and  he  both  feels  the  flame  and 
expands  in  the  heat. 

Again,  the  master  dedicates  his  power  to 
a great  cause.  He  is  an  example  of  the 
greater  egoism  that  first  finds  and  then 
straightway  loses  itself.  He  comes  with  a 


no  synagogue  rank;  humanity  conferred 
nothing  upon  Him ; He  borrowed  nothing 
of  us.  Still,  He  easily  excelled  in  intellect 
not  only  His  own  age  but  all  the  ages. 
Michelet  said,  “I  appreciate  Nazareth  and 
the  small  lakes  of  G.alilee,  but  when  I am 
thirsty  I could  drink  them  dry.”  This  is 
the  boast  of  inflated  intellectualism,  but 
the  fact  remains  that  nineteen  hundred 
years  have  not  sufficed  to  exhaust  this 
lakeside  teacher. 

Christ  excelled  in  love  in  a loveless  age. 
If  he  was  .a  product  of  the  soil  humanity 


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mastery  of  the  only  law  of  human  great- 
ness. Without  this  consecration  history 
entombs  great  men;  with  it  history  en- 
shrines and  immortalizes  them.  This  fact 
is  the  world’s  verdict  to  the  infallibility  of 
the  gospel’s  law  of  human  greatness. 

Now  if  the  M.aster  thus  comes,  does  the 
Christ  stand  the  test?  Surely  He  was  the 
product  of  no  age,  no  soil,  no  environment. 
He  was  not  a dream  Christ,  woven  out  of 
the  world’s  hope.  He  is  no  f.abric  of  the 
mill  of  superstition.  His  powers  were  born 
with  Him.  He  had  no  university  training. 


should  ere  this  have  duplicated  His  love. 
Maybe  He  was  not  the  Son  of  God  in  a 
unique  sense.  No  matter,  now.  This  is 
true,  that  looking  on  Him  humanity  has 
found  its  highest  definition  of  God— God  is 
love. 

He  excelled  in  character.  Lay  aside 
men’s  estimate  of  Him  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment and  in  creeds.  Study  Him  ,as  mir- 
rored in  human  thought,  the  thought  of  the 
common  people  in  His  own  day  and  now. 
How  does  He  appear?  Surely  as  the  sum 
of  spiritual  beauty,  the  king  of  inward 


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truth.  Did  He  perform  miracles?  No 
matter  now.  We  know  He  was  the  king- 
liest  soul  the  world  has  ever  seen.  Renan’s 
prophecy  was  e.asy.  He  will  never  be  sur- 
passed. 

He  excelled  in  power  for  He  let  loose  in 
the  world  a spiritual  force  that  men  could 
neither  destroy  nor  localize.  He  gave  a 
religion  that  satisfies  the  universal  heart — 
the  only  timeless,  placeless  religion  the 
world  has  ever  known.  He  was  such  a 
m.aster  in  power  possessed  that  nations 


the  world  and  preach  my  gospel”  is  either 
commanding  men  on  a fool’s  errand,  or  ;a 
sublime  realization  th.at  the  world  would 
answer  to  His  gospel.  History  reveals 
which  it  was.  But  notice,  Christ  only  had 
one  appeal  and  that  was  to  the  inner  con- 
sciousness of  men.  He  invoked  no  external 
authority.  He  was  no  proof  text  teacher. 
He  t.aught  as  one  having  authority  and  He 
had/  but  it  was  not  the  authority  of  the 
priesthood  but  of  the  sublime  realization 
of  His  own  power.  He  had  truth,  and  with 


WHITE  HOUSE  GIRLS 


loaned  their  languages,  surrendered  their 
faiths,  that  this  humble  peasant  might  be- 
come the  world’s  spiritual  king,  and  where- 
ever  His  truth  goes  it  still  has  power  to 
exalt  humanity.  Was  He  not  born  a mas- 
ter? Again  He  realized  His  power.  What 
Christ  thought  of  Himself  is  the  secret  of 
His  own  great  soul.  But  we  have  hints  of 
his  inner  consciousness  of  power.  “And  I, 
if  I be  lifted  up  will  draw  all  men  unto  me” 
is  either  the  statement  of  sublime  egotism 
or  of  sublime  consciousness  of  power.  His- 
tory reveals  which  it  was.  “Go  ye  into  all 


no  other  authority  he  dared  to  dream  of 
the  world  receiving  Him.  No  higher  evi- 
dence of  the  realization  of  power  could  be 
asked. 

Again,  He  dedicated  His  power.  His  was 
the  greatest  soul  the  world  has  known,  but 
he  let  us  break  it  that  we  might  not  be 
heart  broken.  His  highest  tribute  is  that 
He  saved  others  but  could  not  save  Him- 
self. This  is  at  once  His  glory  and  our 
hope. 

And  so  the  Galilean  peasant  carpenter 
is  on  the  throne  of  the  world  because  He 


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39 


is  the  Master.  His  throne  has  no  pretend- 
ers, and  no  subject  wants  Him  to  abdicate. 
He  answers  to  all  the  tests  of  mastery,  and 
the  chief  of  these  I have  mentioned. 

“The  Star  is  gone — the  Angels  gone, 
Such  marvels  can  not  last; 

The  Shepherds  and  the  Magi  move 
Like  ghosts  in  that  dim  past; 

But  Thou,  O Christ,  art  more  to  us 
Than  prodigy  or  sign, 

We  need  no  miracles  but  Thee 
And  Thy  great  life  divine.” 

II — The  Incident. 

Christ  was  standing  one  day  in  the  pres- 


know  that  enlarged  gifts  and  powers  are 
not  always  a blessing.  Christ  knew  the 
same.  Power  and  privilege  are  the  tests 
of  life.  Still  Christ  did  not  withhold  the 
gift.  Here  Christ  illuminates  God’s  plan  in 
dealing  with  life.  The  tragedy  of  misused 
power  does  not  daunt  the  courage  of  God. 
God  refuses  to  govern  life  by  ta  timid  ex- 
pediency. His  cry  to  imprisoned  power  has 
been  “be  opened.”  God  is  not  system 
bound  by  old  truths.  God  gives  man  a uni- 
verse within,  without,  above,  and  says  all 
the  problems  of  earth  and  sky,  man  and 


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ence  of  a deaf  and  dumb  man.  As  He 
healed  him  the  Master  sighed.  That  sigh 
has  been  heard  round  the  world.  Its  in- 
terpretation has  challenged  the  skill  of  the 
exegetes.  It  leads  to  the  soul  of  hum.an 
life,  of  Christ  and  to  the  heart  of  God. 
Shall  we  interpret  the  sigh  of  the  Master? 
Bishop  Boyd  Carpenter  interprets  it  truly. 
It  was  not  a sigh  of  weariness  or  pity,  but 
the  measure  of  the  solicitation  in  the  un- 
fathomable soul  of  Jesus  in  the  liberation 
of  new  powers  in  the  life  of  man.  It  has 
its  explanation  in  hum.an  experience.  We 


God  are  yours.  Solve  them.  God’s  com- 
mand to  every  university  man  is  think, 
think,  investigate,  investigate. 

“Think  as  if  man  never  thought  before, 
Act  .as  if  all  creation  hung  attent 
On  the  acting  of  such  faculties  as  yours.” 

God  is  not  afraid  of  truth.  From  the 
flower  to  the  Christ  God  lays  all  on  the  table 
of  man’s  investigation.  He  makes  life’s 
problems  to  spring  out  at  us  from  the 
hedgerow,  to  be  projected  toward  us  by 
song  of  bird,  to  shine  down  upon  us  from 
the  sun,  to  pulsate  within  our  brains  and 


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hearts.  Tr.agedy  of  misused  power?  Yes — 
but  God’s  answer  is  more  power.  And  yet 
at  the  heart  of  God  tljere  is  a sigh  solici- 
tous as  he  thinks  of  the  increased  power 
this  University  has  conferred  upon  you,  my 
young  friends.  May  you  share  God’s  solici- 
tude today. 

Ill — Application. 

Now  this  Master,  Christ,  is  the  touch- 
stone of  human  life  and  destiny.  You  can 
not  afford  to  scorn  the  highest  opportunity 
for  discipleship.  You  are  the  young  men 
,and  women  of  power  and  privilege.  This 


Christ.  To  be  right  with  Him  is  to  be 
right  on  problems.  Life’s  call  is  uncertain, 
but  life’s  duty  is  clear.  M.ay  you  read  it 
today  in  the  face  of  the  Master. 


A Brief  History  of  the  Establishing  of 
State  Normal  Schools  in  Ohio 

By  Charles  F.  Seese. 

IN  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
74th  General  Assembly,  there  was  in- 
troduced by  the  writer,  House  Bill  No. 
163,  providing  for  the  establishment  of  a 


ROSS,  FAYETTE,  HIGHLAND,  AND  CLINTON  CLUB 


University  has  reve.aled  your  power  unto 
you.  You  must  say  what  you  will  do  with 
it.  I present  to  you  the  Master.  Castello 
saw  a Murillo  and  said  Castello  is  no  more. 
Correggio  saw  a Raphael  and  said  “Thank 
God,  I too,  am  an  artist.”  Do  not  think. 
Christ  too  lofty  for  you.  Seeing  Him,  may 
your  heart’s  cry  be  “Thank  God,  I,  too,  am 
a man.”  God  will  forgive  failure;  how  can 
He  forgive  low  aim  in  the  men  and  women 
of  power  and  privilege? 

Members  of  the  Senior  Class,  I have  not 
spoken  to  you  about  problems  but  about 


series  of  State  Normal  Schools  not  to  ex- 
ceed five  in  number,  and  at  least  one  of 
which  “shall  be  ready  for  the  reception  of 
pupils  by  September  first,  nineteen  hun- 
dred and  one,”  and  the  others  as  soon 
thereafter  as  practicable. 

This  bill  had  provision  for  a Normal 
School  Commission,  appointed  by  the  Gov- 
ernor, whose  duties  were  to  end  with  choos- 
ing location  and  erecting  suitable  buildings, 
after  which  each  school  was  to  be  in  charge 
of  five  trustees  also  appointed  by  the  Gov- 
ernor. 


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41 


This  first  Normal  School  Bill  was  written 
jointly  by  School  Commissioner  Lewis  D. 
Bonebrake  and  the  Representative  from 
Summit  county,  and,  in  conference,  had  the 
hearty  support  of  such  men  as  Dr.  E.  E. 
White,  Dr.  W.  O.  Thompson,  Superinten- 
dent J.  A.  Shawan,  and  Dr.  R.  G.  Boone. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  estab- 
lishment of  Normal  Schools  had  been  agi- 
tated ever  since  the  early  days  of  Dr.  John 
Hancock,  one  School  Commissioner  after 
another  advocating  the  same  in  his  annual 
report  as  well  as  “on  the  stump,”  the  bill 
was  doomed  to  defeat  for  several  reasons — 
first  of  all  because  the  school  men  of  Ohio 
did  not  stand  together  and,  second,  because 
the  smaller  colleges  and  private  normal 


HON.  CHAS.  F . SEESEj  A.  M .,  HUDSON,  O. 


schools  fought  the  measure  under  the  mis- 
taken idea  that  it  meant  death  to  them. 
Last,  but  by  no  means  least,  politics  played 
a part,  for  the  alarming  cry  of  the  enemy 
that  it  meant  a million  for  equipment,  made 
even  politicians  hesitate. 

After  a battle  royal  the  bill  was  defeated 
in  the  House,  receiving  53  votes,  just  three 
short  of  the  necessary  majority. 

But  such  sentiment  can  not  die,  and  the 
75th  General  Assembly  saw  the  “Old 
Guard”  still  fighting,  trim  and  nobly  rein- 
forced by  an  “Old-newcomer”  in  the  person 


of  Dr.  Alston  Ellis,  who  had  just  been 
chosen  President  of  the  Ohio  University, 
at  Athens. 

His  long  service  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  state  gave  ample  assurance  of  his 
hearty  co-operation  in  the  Normal-School 
movement,  and  when  House  Bill  No.  369 
made  its  appearance  it  might  rightly  have 
been  styled  the  Ellis-Bonebrake-Seese  Bill. 

As  is  now  well  known,  this  bill  provided 
for  State  Normal  Schools  at  Athens  and 
Oxford  in  connection  with  Ohio  and  Miami 
universities. 

The  new  measure  was  popular  from  the 
day  of  its  introduction,  but  with  all  that 
it  took  another  strenuous  fight  to  win,  and 
when  the  final  vote  was  taken  giving  the 
bill  an  overwhelming  majority  in  each 
House,  the  friends  of  Ohio  Normal  Schools 
had  great  cause  for  rejoicing. 

We  builded  even  more  wisely  than  we 
knew,  for  how  well  the  work  has  been 
started  is  attested  by  the  abnormally  large 
attendance  at  both  schools;  and,  to  those 
of  us  acquainted  with  the  facts,  the  results 
seem  almost  incredible. 


PROFESSIONAL  TRAINING  OF 
TEACHERS. 

The  Meigs  County  Teachers’  Institute 
met  in  Pomeroy  the  week  beginning  July 
24th.  The  regular  instructors  were  Presi- 
dent C.  C.  Miller,  of  Lima  College,  and  Edi- 
tor F.  B.  Pearson,  of  Columbus. 

Addresses  were  delivered  by  President 
Alston  Ellis,  of  Ohio  University,  and  Presi- 
dent John  M.  Davis,  of  Rio  Grande  College. 

The  sessions  of  the  institute  were  held  in 
the  court  house.  Over  the  judge’s  chair  was 
a bust  of  one  of  Ohio’s  most  honored  sons — 
Hon.  Thomas  Ewing.  Mr.  Ewing  graduated 
from  the  Ohio  University  in  1815,  and  there- 
after gave  such  good  account  of  himself  as 
to  make  his  name  most  favorably  known 
from  one  end  of  the  country  to  the  other. 
The  bust  referred  to  was  fittingly  draped 
with  the  colors  of  Ohio  University — olive 
green  and  white.  The  display  of  these  col- 
ors was  the  result  of  the  thoughtful  effort 
of  twenty-three  Meigs  county  teachers,  who 
had  but  recently  returned  from  the  summer 
school  at  Athens. 

Dr.  Ellis’s  address,  on  “The  Professional 
Training  of  Teachers  under  Conditions  now 


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Existing  in  Ohio,”  was  delivered  on  Wednes- 
day morning,  July  26th.  The  opening  sen- 
tence was  the  question,  “Are  we  agreed  as 
to  the  necessity  for  special  training  for 
those  who  are  to  undertake  the  work  of 
teaching?” 

Some  are  yet  skeptical  as  to  the  value 
of  the  work  done  in  normal  schools, 
whether  public  or  private.  The  weight  of 


of  the  average  normal  school,  for  in  their 
experience  they  had  found  the  former  to 
possess,  as  a rule,  better  scholarship  and 
more  adaptability  to  the  exigencies  of  the 
schoolroom  than  the  latter. 

The  coming  of  State  Normal  Schools, 
said  the  speaker,  has  given  opportunity  to 
establish  high  standards  of  professional 
training  for  teachers,  and  to  bring  the 


A LITERATURE  CLASS  ON  NORTH  HILL 


numbers,  however,  is  with  those  who  think 
that  a teacher  needs  special  training  for  his 
work  just  as  a physician,  a minister,  a law- 
yer, a dentist,  a pharmacist,  an  engineer, 
or  a machinist  requires  previous  prepara- 
tion for  his.  The  claim  was  made  that  pri- 
vate normal  schools  by  their  pretentious 
claims,  short  courses,  and  superficial  work 
had  done  much  to  bring  the  teacher’s  pro- 
fessional preparation  into  disrepute.  In 
times  past  those  seeking  capable  teachers 
looked  with  more  favor  upon  the  average 
high-school  graduate  than  upon  the  product 


whole  matter  as  to  its  essential  features 
within  the  control  of  the  state. 

The  two  existing  normal  schools,  now  un- 
der state  support  and  control,  cannot  do  all 
the  training  of  teachers  the  interests  of  the 
school  children  of  Ohio  imperatively  de- 
mand. The  average  school  life  of  a teacher 
is  about  four  years;  hence  there  is  a body 
of  more  than  6,000  new  teachers  entering 
the  schools  of  Ohio  each  year.  Not  more 
than  one-fourth  of  these  begin  teaching 
with  any  professional  preparation  worthy 
of  the  name.  Were  they  to  seek  such  prep- 


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aration  they  could  not  secure  it  in  the 
present  state-supported  institutions.  Re- 
liance can  not  be  placed  upon  institutions 
independent  of  state  supervision  to  make 
up  any  deficiency  in  the  necessary  number 
of  trained  teachers. 

We  have  made  education  a public  matter. 
The  schools  are  supported  by  general  taxa- 
tion; teachers  are  paid  from  public  funds; 
and  the  purchase  of  grounds  and  the  build- 
ing and  equipping  of  school-houses  are  mat- 
ters of  cost  to  all  tax-payers. 


country,  and  other  countries,  unites  in  fa- 
voring public  normal  schools  as  the  most 
rational  and  effective  means  of  putting  well- 
qualified  teachers  in  charge  of  our  schools. 
Forty-eight  states  and  territories  in  this 
country  now  support  public  normal-schools. 
Nowhere  is  their  continuance  seriously 
threatened.  There  is  still  in  Ohio  some  an- 
tagonism to  the  policy  of  normal  schools  at 
public  expense,  but  this  opposition  comes 
chiefly  from  those  connected  with  private- 
school  interests.  Private  interests  should 


A GROUP  OF  ORATORICAL  STUDENTS 

SEE  SHORT  ARTICLE 


Dr.  Ellis  asserted  that  the  teacher  is  the 
most  vital  part  of  the  whole  public-school 
system.  Other  things,  while  important, 
may  be  indifferently  handled  without  irrep- 
arable loss;  but  the  failure  to  put  the  chil- 
dren in  charge  of  competent  teachers  is 
one  whose  wide-reaching,  eternal  harmful- 
ness finite  wisdom  cannot  measure.  The 
children  are  entitled  to  proper  service  from 
their  teachers;  it  is  the  duty  of  the  public, 
at  large,  to  see  that  they  get  it. 

The  best  educational  sentiment  of  the 


be  respected,  but  they  must  not  be  per- 
mitted to  stand  in  the  way  of  the  general 
good.  Our  citizens  have  no  direct  choice 
of  those  who  teach  their  children.  The  law 
compels  parents  to  give  their  children  cer- 
tain educational  advantages.  The  same 
power  that  sends  teachers  into  the  schools 
and  forces  children  therein  should  not  cease 
to  exert  itself  until  the  best  interests  of 
the  children  are  safeguarded  in  the  most 
effective  manner  possible. 

From  a careful  view  of  the  educational 


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field,  as  it  presents  itself  in  Ohio,  it  would 
seem  that  the  establishment  of  two  more 
normal  schools — one  in  Northeastern  Ohio 
and  one  in  Northwestern  Ohio — is  a matter 
of  pressing  importance  and  one  in  line  with 
sound  policy.  If  the  state  can  secure  some 
eligibly  located  private  institutions,  either 
by  purchase  or  as  a donation,  that  action 
would  meet  with  general  approval  by  the 
friends  of  public  normal  schools  in  Ohio. 
It  is  recognized  that  there  are  now  educa- 
tional institutions  and  to  spare  in  Ohio. 
The  number  of  chartered  educational  insti- 


in  control — must  stand  supreme.  If  new 
normal  schools  are  necessary — and  a con- 
stantly growing  public  opinion  thinks  they 
are— they  must  not  be  tacked  onto  some 
existing  private  or  denominational  colleges 
as  a kind  of  side  show. 

Another  educational  question,  said  Presi- 
dent Ellis,  that  will  have  to  be  settled  by  leg- 
islation is  the  just  and  proper  recognition 
of  the  work  of  the  state  normal  schools 
now  existing  and  others  to  be  established. 
In  this  connection,  the  speaker  quoted  from 
an  article  formerly  contributed  by  him  to 


PREBLE  COUNTY  CLUB 


tutions  in  the  State  cannot  be  less  than 
fifty.  Some  of  these,  at  least,  have  small 
excuse  for  being.  If  their  number  could  be 
decreased  by  two  as  a result  of  the  exten- 
sion of  public  normal-school  work,  as  be- 
fore indicated,  surely  no  loss  to  our  educa- 
tional welfare  would  follow. 

The  union  of  private  or  denominational 
school  interests  with  those  of  the  state  is 
condemned  by  experience  and,  I think,  pro- 
hibited by  constitutional  provision.  In  the 
matter  of  public  education,  whether  in  school 
or  college,  the  State  must  remain  wholly 


the  columns  of  the  Ohio  University  Bulle- 
tin, for  February,  1904: 

The  establishment  of  State  Normal 
Schools  in  Ohio  has  changed  materially  the 
preparation  for  teaching  made  by  a rapidly 
increasing  number  of  wide-awake,  earnest, 
progressive  teachers.  These  persons  are 
looking  forward  to  effective,  intelligent  ser- 
vice in  the  public  schools  of  the  State.  All 
their  painstaking  preparation  points  to  this 
end.  This  preparation  is  being  made  under 
most  promising  conditions.  Their  teachers 
— all  having  to  do  with  their  scholastic  and 


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45 


professional  training — are  selected  by 
state  authority  and,  in  all  their  work,  act 
as  the  representatives  of  the  people  at 
large.  Admitting  their  competency  to  do 
the  work  they  have  in  charge,  there  is  no 
constituted  authority  more  able  or  better 
fitted  to  pass  upon  the  qualifications  of 
those  whom  they  train  for  teaching  service 
than  they.  School  examiners,  as  we  know 
them  and  their  work  to-day,  however  com- 
petent and  worthy  they  may  be,  have  but 
little  opportunity  to  judge  of  the  real 


of  the  State  Board  of  School  Examiners 
can  not  pass  upon  the  fitness  of  these  nor- 
mal-school graduates  to  teach  with  the 
same  justice  and  discrimination  as  can  be 
— yes,  will  be — employed  by  the  state  em- 
ployes acting  in  behalf  of  public  educa- 
tional interests  and  from  the  vantage  point 
of  direct  personal  knowledge. 

The  able  paper  of  Dr.  Frank  P.  Bachman, 
on  “Certification  of  Teachers  Prepared  in 
State  Institutions,”  found  in  the  January, 
1904,  issue  of  The  Ohio  Teacher,  is  a timely 


McLAIN  BOARDING  CLUB 


scholastic  and  professional  worth  of  those 
whom  they  pass  or  reject  as  a result  of  the 
examinations  they  conduct.  What  can  be 
said  in  favor  of  a policy  that  sends  a grad- 
uate from  the  State  Normal  College,  in 
which  he  has  completed  a two-year  or  a 
four-year  course  based  upon  the  finished 
work  of  a high  school  of  the  first  grade,  be- 
fore a county  or  city  board  of  school  exami- 
ners there  to  show,  by  a hurried  examina- 
tion in  a number  of  branches  of  study,  that 
he  is  worthy  to  teach  a common  school?  It 
may  be  asserted,  with  truth,  that  members 


contribution  to  a discussion  which  is  grow- 
ing in  interest  among  Ohio  teachers.  It  is 
an  article  in  which  facts  rather  than  theo- 
ries are  presented.  The  writer  gives 
clearly  the  plans  of  certificating  teachers; 
under  statute,  in  the  different  states  and 
territories  of  the  Union,  and  then  leaves 
the  reader  to  reach  his  own  conclusions 
from  the  data  set  before  him.  A summary 
of  the  information  contained  in  Dr.  Bach- 
man’s contribution  is  as  follows: 

1.  Forty-eight  (48)  states  and  territories 
support  public  normal-schools.  Forty  (40) 


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of  these  grant,  to  normal-school  graduates, 
some  form  of  teachers  certificate — twenty- 
two  (22)  permanent  and  eighteen  (18)  pro- 
visional. 

2.  Thirty-five  (35)  states  and  territories 
have  educational  departments  connected 
with  their  state  universities.  In  nine  (9)  of 
these,  no  kind  of  certificate  to  teach  is 
given  to  graduates.  In  fifteen  (15)  of  these 
permanent  certificates,  and  in  eleven  (11) 
provisional  certificates,  are  granted  to  grad- 
uates. 

3.  In  five  (5)  states,  graduates  of  pri- 
vate normal  schools  are  given  some  form  of 


Secretary  of  State  for  Ohio,  gave  an  excel- 
lent presentation  of  the  noble  record  Ohio 
has  made  in  her  century’s  history.  The 
Hon.  Albert  Douglas,  LL.  D.,  spoke  of  the 
historic  events  of  previous  Fourths.  There 
was  appropriate  orchestral  music  and  sing- 
ing, and  the  day  was  thus  fittingly  ob- 
served. President  Alston  Ellis  has  made 
and  is  making  a distinguished  success  of 
his  administration.  By  a vote  of  the  trus- 
tees he  is  to  be  kept  in  power  at  least  five 
years  more,  and  that  term,  at  its  expira- 
tion, will  doubtless  be  extended. 

— Western  Christian  Advocate. 


KALER  BOARDING  CLUB 


teacher’s  certificate  under  conditions  named 
by  state  authority.  The  same  recognition, 
under  like  conditions,  is  given  to  graduates 
of  private  colleges,  in  eleven  (11)  states 
and  territories. 


IT  WAS  the  Editor’s  privilege  on  July 
Fourth  to  address  an  enthusiastic 
gathering  of  over  six  hundred  sum- 
mer-school students  in  the  auditorium  of 
the  Ohio  University,  at  Athens.  The  theme 
of  the  address,  was  the  cultivation  of  a right 
patriotism.  The  Hon.  Lewis  C.  Laylin, 


President  Ellis  in  his  chapel  talk  before 
the  students  of  the  Summer  School,  on  the 
morning  of  July  13th,  gave  a number  of 
practical  suggestions  regarding  the  study 
of  English  literature.  In  closing,  he  called 
attention  to  five  books  which  had  given  him 
interest  in  the  study  of  the  lives  and  writ- 
ings of  certain  authors.  Here  is  the  list: 
Thackeray’s  English  Humorists,  Fields’s 
Yesterdays  with  Authors,  Howells’s  Literary 
Friends  and  Acquaintances,  Higginson’s 
Contemporaries.  Lastly,  as  an  inspiring 
book  for  teachers  to  read,  James  Freeman 
Clarke’s  Self-Culture  was  recommended. 


THE  MIRROR 


47 


OHIO  UNIVERSITY 

AND 

THE  STATE  NORMAL  COLLEGE 


FACULTY. 


ALSTON  ELLIS,  PH.  D.,  LL.  D., 

President. 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  SUPER, 

PH.  D.,  LL.  D„ 

Professor  of  Greek  and  Dean  of  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts. 

HENRY  G.  WILLIAMS,  A.  M., 

Professor  of  School  Administration  and  Dean  of  the 
Normal  College. 

DAVID  J.  EVANS,  A.  M., 

Professor  of  Latin. 

FREDERICK  TREUDLEY,  A.  B., 

Professor  of  Educational  Methods. 

WILLIAM  HOOVER,  PH.  D.,  LL.  D„ 

Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astronomy. 

ALBERT  A.  ATKINSON,  M.  S., 

Professor  of  Physics  and  Electrical  Engineering. 

HENRY  W.  ELSON,  PH.  D., 

Professor  of  History  and  Political  Economy. 

OSCAR  CHRISMAN,  A.  M.,  PH.  D., 

Professor  of  Paid ology  and  Psychology . 

WILLIAM  FAIRFIELD  MERCER,  PH.  D., 

Professor  of  Biology  and  Geology. 

WILLIAM  B.  BENTLEY,  PH.,  D., 

Professor  of  Chemistry . 

LEWIS  JAMES  ADDICOTT,  B.  S., 

Professor  of  Civil  and  Mining  Engineering. 

EDWIN  TAUSCH,  PH.  D„ 

Professor  of  Modern  Languages. 

EDWIN  WATTS  CHUBB,  LITT.  D., 

Professor  of  Rhetoric  and  English  Literature. 

FRANK  P.  BACHMAN,  A B.,  PH.  D., 

Professor  of  the  History  and  Principles  of  Education 

ELI  DUNKLE,  A.  M., 

Associate  Professor  of  Greek  and  Principal  of  the 
Preparatory  Department. 

HIRAM  ROY  WILSON,  A.  M., 

Professor  of  English. 

EDSON  M.  MILLS,  A.  M.,  PH.  M., 

Professor  of  Mathematics 

CHARLES  M.  COPELAND,  B.  PED., 

Principal  of  the  Commercial  College. 

JAMES  PRYOR  McVEY, 

Director  of  the  College  of  Music. 

JAMES  C.  JONES,  V.  S., 

Director  of  Athletics. 

EMMA  S.  WAITE, 

Principal  of  Model  School. 


MARY  ELLEN  MOORE,  A.  B„ 

Instructor  in  Latin  and  English. 

THOMAS  N.  HOOVER,  B.  PED., 

Instructor  in  History. 

MARGARET  EDITH  JONES, 

Instructor  on  the  Piano  and  in  Voice-Culture 
and  Harmony. 

NELLIE  H.  VAN  VORHES, 

Instructor  on  the  Piano  and  Virgil  Clavier 

CLARA  BANCROFT, 

Instructor  on  the  Piano  and  in  Voice-Culture. 

MINNIE  L.  CUCKLER, 

Instructor  on  the  Piano  and  Organ. 

JOHN  N.  HIZEY, 

Instructor  on  the  Violin. 

MARIE  LOUISE  STAHL, 

Instructor  in  Drawing  and  Painting. 

CORNELIA  I.  GASKELL, 

Instructor  in  Drawing  and  Hand  Work. 

LOUISE  KING  WALLS,  B.  O., 

Instructor  ,m  Elocution  and  Physical  Culture. 

MABEL  K.  BROWN,  PH.  D., 

Instructor  in  Stenography . 

MINNIE  FOSTER  DEAN, 

Instructor  in  Typewriting. 

EDWARD  JAMES  BROWN, 

Stenographer , President's  Office. 

john  e.  mcdaniel,  ph.  b., 

Assistant  in  Biology. 

george  e.  McLaughlin, 

Assistant  in  Physics  and  Electricity . 

GEORGE  C.  PARKS, 

Instructor  in  Penmanship  and  Mechanical  Drawing 

JAMES  O.  WRIGHT,  B.  S., 

Assistant  in  Physics. 

JOSHUA  R.  MORTON,  B.  S., 

Assistant  in  Chemistry . 

CHARLES  G.  MATTHEWS,  PH.  M., 

Assistant  Librarian. 

LENORA  BELLE  BISHOP,  PH.  B., 

Assistant  Librarian. 

LILLIE  A.  FARIS, 

Critic  Teacher,  First-  Year  Grade. 

AMY  M.  WEIHR,  PH.  M.,  B.  PED., 

Critic  Teacher,  Second  and  Third  Grades. 

OLIVE  A.  WILSON, 

Critic  Teacher,  Fourth  Grade. 

' EDGAR  ERVIN, 

Field  Agent. 


48 


THE  MIRROR 


THE  OHIO  UNIVERSITY  SUMMER 
SCHOOL. 

A Summer  term  at  Ohio  University  is  no 

new  thing  under  the  educational  sun.  Be- 
fore the  State  Normal  College  came  to  the 
University  under  the  provisions  of  the 
“Seese  Bill,”  a Summer  School,  conducted 
by  some  University  instructors,  had  been 
doing  good  service.  These  instructors  car- 


The  work  of  the  Summer  School  has  had 

wide  range,  and  has  proved  very  satisfac- 
tory to  the  large  number  of  students  who 
have  taken  it  and  profited  by  it. 

SUMMER  TERM. 

June  25  to  August  3,  1906. 

This  term  is  arranged  to  accommodate 
those  who  are  otherwise  employed  during 
the  regular  terms  and  to  afford  college  stu- 


NEW  NORMAL  COLLEGE  BUILDING 


ried  on  the  work  as  a private  enterprise. 

The  establishment  of  the  State  Normal 
College,  at  Athens,  brought  necessity  for 
the  reorganization  and  enlargement  of  the 
Summer  School  work  at  Ohio  University. 
Recognizing  the  importance  of  that  work, 
the  Board  of  Trustees  placed  the  control  of 
the  Summer  School  in  the  hands  of  the 
President  of  the  University,  and  made  lib- 
eral appropriations  of  money  to  be  used  by 
him,  in  addition  to  all  incidental  fees  re- 
ceived, in  providing  for  its  proper  organiza- 
tion and  maintenance. 


dents  an  opportunity  to  continue  their 
studies.  All  collegiate  instruction  will  be 
given  by  members  of  the  regular  Faculty 
and  the  requirements  and  the  credits  in 
the  various  branches  taught  will  be  the 
same  as  in  other  terms. 

Ohio  University,  by  tradition  and  exper- 
ince,  has  ever  been  in  close  touch  with  the 
public-school  system  of  the  State.  Many  of 
the  graduates,  and  many  who  left  the  under- 
graduate classes  without  completing  a 
course,  are  now  engaged  in  teaching.  Of  the 
students  now  in  attendance  upon  college 


THE  MIRROR 


49 


classes,  at  least  one-third  have  had  success- 
ful experience  in  teaching.  This  institution 
was  one  of  the  first  in  Ohio  to  establish  and 
maintain  with  credit  a Department  of  Psy- 
chology and  Pedagogy. 

Normal  College — The  provision  for  the 
support  of  this  State  Normal  School  is  suffi- 
cient to  enable  the  Trustees  to  maintain  a 
high-grade  institution  where  the  teachers 
of  the  State  may  obtain  superior  profes- 
sional training.  The  Ohio  University  Sum- 
mer School  will  maintain  regular  depart- 
ments of  The  Normal  College,  and  work 


credit  allowed  on  each  course,  see  booklet 
in  which  the  several  courses  offered  are 
fully  set  forth. 

Courses  of  Study — Courses  of  study  have 
been  provided  to  accommodate  the  follow- 
ing classes  of  students:  Those  doing  regu- 
lar college  work  who  wish  to  continue  their 
college  studies  during  the  summer;  those 
young  people  who  are  preparing  to  teach 
and  who  are  desirous  of  getting  the  very 
best  professional  equipment;  teachers  of 
some  experience  who  wish  to  review  and 
take  advanced  work;  teachers  who  are  pre- 


THE  NORMAL  COLLEGE  BUILDING 

SHOWING  PROPOSED  WINGS 


done  in  the  Summer  School  will  entitle  the 
student  to  credit  on  a regular  college 
course. 

Faculty — The  Faculty  is  a very  strong 
one,  composed  of  those  who  are  regularly 
engaged  in  the  work  of  the  University.  It 
would  seem  hardly  necessary  to  call  atten- 
tion of  prospective  students  to  the  fact  that 
this  is  a guaranty  of  high-grade  work,  and 
that  the  work  done  in  the  Summer  School 
will  be  up  to  regular  college  grade  in  every 
respect.  College  credit  will  be  given  for  all 
work  done.  For  the  number  of  hours  of 


paring  for  required  examinations;  teachers 
and  others  who  are  preparing  to  enter  one 
of  the  regular  University  or  Normal-College 
courses,  and  wish  to  bring  up  back  work  in 
order  to  be  able  to  enter  a college  course 
without  conditions ; teachers  and  others 
who  are  prepared  to  carry  regular  college 
work;  superintendents  and  advanced  teach- 
ers who  are  seeking  a broad  professional 
training. 

Attendance  Statistics — The  attendance 
of  students  at  the  Summer  School,  of  Ohio 


50 


THE  MIRROR 


University,  for 
with  shown: 

the 

last  eight  years, 

is  here- 

Year. 

Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

1898  

. 27.. 

25 

52 

1899  

. 38.. 

23 

61 

1900  

. 36.. 

29 

65 

1901  

. 45.. 

57 

102 

1902  

.110.. 

128 

238 

1903  

.159.. 

264 

423 

1904  

.194.. 

363 

557 

1905  

.220.. 

430 

650 

Additional  Information — Those  interested 
in  the  work  of  the  Summer  School  of  Ohio 
University  can  secure  a copy  of  a hand- 


New  Jersey  1 

Virginia  1 

West  Virginia  3 


Total  G50 

Males,  220;  Females,  430;  Total,  G50. 


No.  of  Students.  Ohio  Counties. 


163 Athens 

43 Fairfield 

32 Perry 

2G Vinton 

23 Meigs 

20 Licking 

19 Pickaway  and  Preble 

17 Ross  and  Jefferson 


HEYMAN'S  CLUB  AT  MRS.  SCHAEFFLER'S 


some  Booklet  giving  names  of  instructors, 
courses  of  study,  hours  of  credit,  and  other 
particulars  desirable  to  know  by  address- 
ing, ALSTON  ELLIS, 

President  Ohio  University,  Athens,  Ohio. 

OHIO  UNIVERSITY  SUMMER  SCHOOL. 

June  19,  1905— July  28,  1905. 

Enrollment  of  Students  by  States  and 
Counties. 


States: 

Ohio  641 

Kentucky  4 


16 Jackson  and  Washington 

15 Franklin 

10 Huron  and  Muskingum 

9 Ottawa  and  Tuscarawas 

8 Belmont,  Gallia,  and  Highland 

7 Fayette,  Hocking,  and  Morgan 


5 . .  . Champaign,  Columbiana,  Coshoc- 

ton, Monroe,  Stark,  and  Trumbull. 

4 . . Crawford,  Guernsey,  Henry,  Knox, 

Madison,  Pike,  and  Scioto. 

3..  Adams,  Ashland,  Clark,  Cuyahoga, 

Lawrence,  Logan,  Lorain,  Noble, 
Portage,  and  Williams. 

2 . .  . Allen,  Ashtabula,  Auglaize,  Cler- 

mont, Darke,  Greene,  Hamilton, 
Hancock,  Harrison,  Marion,  Rich- 


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51 


land,  Sandusky,  Shelby,  and  Wy- 
andot. 

1 . . . Brown,  Butler,  Defiance,  Dela- 
ware, Erie,  Geauga,  Lake,  Lucas, 
Mahoning,  Mercer,  Montgomery, 
Seneca,  Summit,  Union,  Wayne, 
and  Wood. 

No.  Ohio  Students,  641.  No.  Ohio  Coun- 
ties, 76.  No.  Pupils  in  Training  School,  109. 


The  department  of  elocution,  oratory,  and 
of  physical  culture  for  women  will  be  in 
charge  of  Miss  Louise  King  Walls,  of  Cov- 
ington, Ky.,  who  holds  a B.  O.  degree  from 


EDUCATION  AND  BUSINESS. 


As  Viewed  by  President  Alston  Ellis  of  the 
Ohio  University. 


Some  interesting  letters  have  recently 
passed  between  President  Ellis  and  a young 
machinist — a prospective  student — now  liv- 
ing in  Cleveland.  The  young  man  is  able  to 
put  aside  from  his  weekly  earning  as  much 
as  ten  dollars.  He  is  looking  forward  to 
the  time  when  his  weekly  savings  will 
amount  to  five  hundred  dollars.  He  is  in 


CALVERT  BOARDING  CLUB 


the  (Cincinnati  Conservatory  of  Music  and 
Oratory.  Miss  Walls  is  also  a student  un- 
der Mrs.  Bertha  Kuntz  Baker,  of  New  York, 
and  Dr.  S.  H.  Clark  and  Prof.  Moulton,  of 
the  Chicago  University. 

The  following  students  of  the  Summer 
School  were  granted  life  certificates  at  the 
recent  examination:  Charles  W.  Agler,  of 
Eldorado;  George  F.  Aschbacher,  of  Oak 
Harbor;  Supt.  H.  L.  Cash,  Byesville;  Supt. 
Alvin  Dille,  Albany;  Supt.  Charles  F.  Geet- 
ing.  West  Manchester;  Mr.  C.  C.  Livingston, 
Urbana.  ; i , 


doubt  as  to  the  best  course  to  pursue  when 
the  possession  of  his  half  thousand  dollars 
becomes  a fixed  fact. 

Some  influences  impel  him  to  look  for- 
ward to  the  use  of  the  money  in  securing 
additional  mental  power  through  the  com- 
pletion of  a college  course;  again  a low 
prudence  suggests  the  continuation  of  his 
present  work  and  the  swelling  of  his  bank 
account.  Here  is  an  extract  from  his  letter: 

“My  views  about  a college  education  have 
changed.  I used  to  think  that  to  succeed  a 
college  education  is  necessary — I had  read 


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THE  MIRROR 


myself  into  that  belief.  Not  so  now.  I see 
fellows  succeeding  that  never  saw  a col- 
lege. Why  I even  remember  a fellow  suc- 
ceeding that  could  not  read  and  write.  He 
beat  every  body  at  the  game  of  business 
and  died  a comparatively  rich  man.” 

The  following  paragraph  is  taken  from  a 
letter  dictated  by  Dr.  Ellis  in  reply  to  the 
letter  of  inquiry  from  which  the  quotation 
given  above  is  taken: 

“There  are  a great  many  people  in  the 
world  who  regard  an  education  as  worth 
nothing  except  as  it  helps  them  to  be  suc- 


make,  it  has  given  me  much  more  power 
for  good  than  I could  ever  have  had  with- 
out it  and  it  has  enable  me  to  see  more  of 
the  world,  to  enjoy  more  of  the  world,  and 
to  be  more  in  the  world.  In  striving  for 
an  education,  one  should  not  forget  this 
side  of  it.  The  little  money  that  we  may 
make  here  and  the  little  success  that  we 
may  achieve  in  this  life  amount  to  but  very 
little  when  we  come  to  the  day  of  our 
death;  but  the  right  kind  of  an  education 
— that  of  mind,  heart,  and  spirit — will  bring 
one  to  the  last  of  life  with  hope  and  confi- 


IHp  ■ 

P«  — At,  1 

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MEIGS  COUNTY  CLUB 


cessful  in  business.  My  own  opinion  is  that 
an  education  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the 
best  and  surest  success  in  business  and  it 
is  much  more  necessary  in  order  to  enable 
its  possessor  to  live  more,  to  be  worth 
more,  and  to  serve  more  than  he  could 
possibly  be  able  to  do  without  it.  In  my 
own  case,  my  education  has  enabled  me  to 
keep  a good  position,  one  paying  me  many 
times  over  what  an  ordinary  workman  can 
make  at  his  trade,  however  useful  and 
honorable  that  trade  is.  But,  outside  the 
money  my  education  has  enabled  me  to 


dence  that  the  higher  powers  that  he  has 
developed  here  will  be  with  him  throughout 
all  the  ages  of  eternity.  This  may  look  like 
preaching,  but  the  statements  I have  made 
are  the  plain  truth  as  I view  truth  after 
nearly  a lifetime  of  effort  in  seeking  it. 
To  sum  up.  An  education,  as  I see  it,  will 
give  its  possessor  greater  assurance  of 
success  in  any  useful  calling  upon  which 
he  may  enter;  above  and  beyond  all  this, 
it  will  give  him  power  of  development  that 
will  make  him  worthy  of  his  origin,  his 
present  relations,  and  his  future  destiny.  If 


THE  MIRROR 


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an  education  does  not  mean  all  this,  it  has 
but  very  little  meaning  to  me.  Were  I in 
your  situation,  I should  strive  to  get  hold 
of  enough  money  to  enabe  me  to  secure  a 
higher  education  and  thereafter  my  search 
for  that  higher  education  and  my  honest 
endeavor  to  obtain  it  would  be  prompted 
by  the  thought  that  it,  when  secured, 
would  give  me  greater  success  and  happi- 
ness in  this  life  and  would  be  of  inestimable 
value  to  me  in  the  life  hereafter.” 


A PICNIC  PARTY. 


OHIO  UNIVERSITY. 


Institution  at  Athens  Gets  Into  First  Rank. 


A late  issue  of  the  University  Bulletin, 
the  catalogue  number  of  the  Ohio  Univer- 
sity, Athens,  is  of  more  than  ordinary  inter- 
est in  that  it  might  with  propriety  be  called 
the  centennial  number.  It  had  its  inception 
118  years  ago,  but  the  university  was  not 
organized  under  Legislative  enactment  un- 
til 1804.  From  that  time  to  this  it  has  been 
a record  of  growth,  hampered  at  times  by 
various  reasons,  but  nevertheless  forging 
forward. 

In  reality  it  is  now  a great  university,  as 
the  total  number  of  students  is  now  above 
the  thousand  mark. 

In  the  scope  of  instruction  it  is  more 
than  an  ordinary  university  in  that  the 
grades  and  classes  cover  fields  quite  gener- 
ally overlooked  by  other  great  institutions 
of  learning. 


In  addition,  the  coeducational  system  is 
followed  and  many  are  the  women,  young 
and  old,  who  are  availing  themselves  of 
the  facilities  offered  to  secure  a complete 
education. 

When  the  cost  of  a course  at  Athens  is 
examined  it  would  appear  that  any  young 
man  or  woman  of  ordinary  capacity  has  but 
little  excuse  for  not  having  a university 
education,  as  the  minimum  cost  for  forty 
weeks’  course  is  placed  at  $125  and  not  to 
exceed  $200. 

And  it  is  altogether  likely  that  the  fa- 
vorable location  of  Athens  fully  justifies  the 
conservatism  of  the  figures  quoted.  It 
should  be  a matter  of  pride  that  this  old 
institution  of  learning,  founded  as  it  was  in 
the  far  West,  is  now  prosperous  and  that  it 
has  not  yet  reached  the  zenith  of  its  use- 
fulness.— Cincinnati  Commercial  Tribune. 


THE  BIBLE,  SHAKESPEARE,  AND 
BACON’S  ESSAYS. 

In  his  talk  before  the  students  of  the 
Summer  School,  at  Chapel  exercises  held  on 
the  morning  of  July  24th,  President  Ellis 
strongly  advised  the  reading  of  books  that 
had  the  stamp  of  the  world’s  approval  upon 
them. 

In  the  study  of  the  plays  of  Shakespeare, 
the  student  was  cautioned  against  giving 
too  much  time  to  “footnotes”  and  “annota- 
tions.” First  of  all,  the  plays  should  be  read 
just  as  they  appear  in  some  edition  of  rec- 
ognized merit.  Anything  in  the  way  of 
literary  criticism  should  come  later.  Any 
classification  of  the  plays  is  next  to  useless 
to  the  student.  A representation  of  the  gen- 
eral material  and  literary  value  of  the  plays 
will  be  found  in  the  following: 

1.  Richard  III.,  Henry  VIII.,  and  Julius 
Caesar. 

2.  Merchant  of  Venice,  As  You  Like  It, 
and  The  Tempest. 

3.  Hamlet,  Macbeth,  and  Othello. 

The  “Essays  of  Bacon,”  as  edited  by 
Archbishop  Richard  Whately,  was  given 
strong  commendation.  To  select  from  the 
half  hundred  or  more  essays  of  Bacon  those 
most  representative  is  a matter  of  some 
difficulty.  Bacon’s  sentence  “bends  beneath 
the  weight  of  its  thought  as  a branch  bends 
beneath  the  weight  of  its  fruit.” 

Some  put  the  essays  on  “Truth”  and 
“Studies”  on  the  highest  plane  of  literary 


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excellence  and  strength,  but  those  on  “Ad- 
versity” and  “Great  Place”  are  in  no  wise 

inferior. 

Dr.  Ellis  paid  a glowing  tribute  to  that 
portion  of  humanity’s  literature  found  in  the 
Holy  Bible.  A portion  of  his  remarks  is 
herewith  given: 

“The  Bible,  unquestionably,  contains  the 
finest  literature  to  which  we  have  access. 
As  a revelation  from  God,  it  stands  authori- 
tative and  accepted  by  all  highly  civilized 
nations;  and,  as  a treasury  of  sublime 
thoughts  expressed  with  simple,  direct,  and 
eloquent  force,  it  heads  the  literature  of  the 
world.  No  measure  can  be  made  of  the 
influence  of  its  percepts  upon  the  souls  of 
men.  That  influence  can  not  be  stated  in 
finite  terms.  Its  words  of  wisdom,  its 
sublime  utterances,  its  divine  promptings 
have  enriched  the  speech  and  thought,  di- 
rectly or  indirectly,  of  every  writer  whose 
works  are  known  and  valued.  All  profane 
writings,  using  the  words  in  their  literal 
signification,  abound  in  scriptural  speech 
and  illustration.  Their  most  inspiring  para- 
graphs are  such  as  have  origin  in  the  les- 
sons worded  in  Holy  Writ. 

“Children  and  adults,  alike,  find  pleasure 
and  instruction  in  reading  the  story  of 


"AT  EASE." 


Joseph,  of  Ruth,  of  Esther,  and  of  Daniel. 
The  Ten  Commandments  and  the  Sermon 
on  the  Mount  suggest  the  highest  ideals  of 
living  that  mortal  mind  can  translate  into 
action.  The  brotherhood  of  man  is  nowhere 
better  set  forth  than  in  the  interesting  nar- 


rative that  tells  of  the  reciprocal  love  of 
David  and  Jonathan.  The  dream  that  came 
to  the  mind  of  Solomon  in  Gibeon  is  no  idle 
tale  to  hold  the  lagging  interest  of  the 
reader,  but  a vision  in  which  is  seen  the 
best  things  after  which  an  earnest  soul 
should  strive. 

“Look  at  the  beautiful  passages  and 
thought-freighted  sentences  bound  up  in  the 
Book  of  Job!  To  read  of  a man  who  “de- 
livered the  poor  that  cried,  and  the  father- 
less, and  him  that  had  none  to  help  him,” 
who  “caused  the  widow’s  heart  to  sing  for 
joy,”  and  who  was  “eyes  to  the  blind  and 
feet  to  the  lame,”  is  to  come  into  a realm 
of  right  thinking  and  under  strong  prompt- 
ing to  right  living. 

“What  shall  be  said  of  the  Psalms  of 
David  and  the  Proverbs  of  Solomon?  How 
much  of  worship  and  how  much  of  wisdom 
are  to  be  found  in  the  chapters  of  these 
oft-read  portions  of  the  Bible! 

“In  English  literature  we  speak  of  “Mar- 
lowe’s mighty  line,” — where  in  Hebrew 
literature  can  any  thing  finer,  in  the  way  of 
word  structuring,  be  found  than  the  mighty 
and  solemn  passages  that  come  from  the 
mouth  of  Isaiah?  The  prophet  Jeremiah 
does  not  give  himself  up  wholly  to  lamen- 
tations. 

“Mortal  tongue  never  uttered  such  jioble, 
such  soul-moving,  sentiments  as  those  with 
which  the  teachings  of  Christ  abound.  The 
parables  of  our  Savior  are  incomparable. 
Finally,  the  teachings  of  St.  Paul  are  only 
second  in  importance,  in  instruction,  in 
spirituality  to  those  of  Christ  himself. 

“It  is  with  knowledge  that  David  answers 
the  question,  “Wherewith  shall  a young 
man  cleanse  his  way?”  “By  taking  heed 
thereto  according  to  thy  word.” 


MEIGS  COUNTY  CLUB. 

The  history  of  the  organization  and  work 
of  the  Meigs  Co.  Club,  though  worthy  of 
mention,  will  not  be  discussed  in  this  ar- 
ticle for  want  of  space. 

Its  reorganization  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Summer  Term  was  effected  by  re-electing 
F.  A.  Osborn  president,  J.  E.  McDaniels 
vice-president,  and  Bessie  B.  Rutherford, 
secretary. 

The  objects  and  purposes  of  this  organi- 
zation, which  is  made  up  of  the  resident 


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and  former-resident  teachers  and  students 
of  the  county,  are  sociality  and  to  assist 
in  making  the  teacher’s  stay  in  Athens  of 
the  greatest  pleasure  to  him. 

We  shall  now  endeavor  to  make  such 
mention,  as  space  will  permit,  of  each  mem- 
ber of  the  club. 

The  persons  whose  names  are  mentioned 
are  all  found  in  the  picture  beginning  on 
the  left  of  the  first,  second  and  third  rows 
in  order,  with  the  exception  of  G.  Wayne 
Lutz  and  Miss  Delia  O’Connor,  who  were 
absent  when  the  photograph  was  taken. 

F.  A.  Osborn,  who  now  has  the  Freshman 
rank  in  the  Ohio  University,  has  always 
been  identified  with  the  leading  teachers 
of  the  county.  Mr.  Osborn  was  very  suc- 


MUCH  INTERESTED. 


cessful  in  teaching,  and  has  made  an  excel- 
lent record  with  his  studies  while  in  school, 
where  he  is  very  popular  with  the  students. 
Mr.  Osborn  goes  to  Columbus  this  fall  to 
complete  the  course  in  the  Ohio  Medical 
University. 

Miss  Florence  A.  Townsend,  of  Carpenter, 
is  fast  coming  to  the  front  through  her 
natural  aptitude  for  teaching.  Miss  Town- 
send holds  a certificate  in  both  Meigs  and 
Athens  counties,  and  while  not  yet  defi- 
nitely located,  will  perhaps  teach  in 
Athens  county. 

S.  T.  McBride,  formerly  of  Tupper’s 
Plains,  is  the  new  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Amesville,  Athens  Co.  After  a 
number  of  years  of  successful  teaching  in 
his  own  county,  he  went  to  Washington  Co. 


where  he  has  been  connected  with  some 
of  the  leading  schools.  Mr.  McBride  is  to 
be  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  teachers  that 
have  gone  out  from  the  county. 

Miss  Grace  E.  McBride,  formerly  of  Tup- 
per’s Plains,  has  again  been  re-elected, 
after  a year’s  successful  work,  in  the 
schools  of  Belpre.  Miss  McBride  has  taught 
continuously  for  a number  of  years  in  Meigs, 
Athens  and  Washington  counties,  and  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  successful 
teachers  of  the  county. 

W.  O.  Crow,  of  Gt.  Bend,  is  fast  coming 
to  the  front  as  a teacher.  His  success  as  a 
teacher  is  attested  by  the  fact  that  he  has 
been  re-elected  continuously  for  four 
years  in  the  same  schools.  Mr.  Crow’s 
ability  to  instruct  and  success  as  a teacher 
are  hard  to  duplicate  for  his  age  and  exper- 
ience. 

Miss  Bessie  B.  Rutherford,  of  Carpenter, 
will  teach  in  the  schools  of  Columbia  Tp. 
the  coming  year.  Miss  Rutherford  is  a 
very  progressive  teacher,  and  has  made 
rapid  advancement  in  her  studies  during 
her  two  years’  work  in  the  summer  school. 

Mr.  Lehman,  formerly  of  Salem  Center, 
who  is  doing  work  at  the  Summer  Term, 
will  be  a student  at  the  O.  U.  the  coming 
year. 

Miss  Amanda  Staneart,  of  Darwin,  who  is 
doing  good  work  in  the  Summer  School, 
expects  to  attend  school  the  coming  year. 

Homer  Lee,  of  Harrisonville,  is  making 
good  progress  with  his  studies  at  the  Sum- 
mer School,  has  not  yet  definitely  located, 
but  will  perhaps  teach  in  some  of  the 
schools  of  Meigs  Co. 

Miss  Goldie  Staneart,  of  Darwin,  is  pro- 
gressing nicely  with  her  work  in  the  Sum- 
mer School,  and  expects  to  be  in  school 
the  coming  year. 

G.  W.  Jacoby,  of  Long  Bottom,  is  rated 
among  the  best  instructors  of  the  county, 
having  had  a number  of  years  of  successful 
teaching  in  some  of  the  best  schools  of  the 
county,  being  the  principal  of  the  Reeds- 
ville  schools  the  past  year. 

Miss  Clara  Whiteside,  of  Long  Bottom,  is 
making  excellent  progress  in  her  work  in 
the  Summer  School.  Miss  Whiteside  is  a 
very  progressive  teacher  and  is  employed 
in  the  Reedsville  schools  for  the  coming 
year. 

Mr.  W.  E.  Butcher,  of  Salem  Centre,  will 


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teach  in  Vinton  Co.  Mr.  Butcher  is  one  of 
the  “old  stand  bys”  in  the  profession. 

Miss  Flora  B.  Smith,  of  Rutland,  who  has 
been  a student  in  the  Summer  School  for 
the  last  two  years,  is  a very  successful 
teacher,  and  will  have  charge  of  the  school 
at  Zion  this  year. 

Miss  Blanche  Howe,  formerly  of  Meigs 
county  but  now  a resident  of  Athens,  is  a 
senior  at  the  O.  U.  and  will  graduate  with 
the  class  of  ’06. 

Miss  Bessie  Staneart,  who  is  doing  a good 
class  of  work  at  the  Summer  School,  will 
teach  in  Athens  county  this  year. 

Miss  Erma  Staneart,  of  Darwin,  who  is 
attending  the  Summer  Term,  also  expects 
to  be  in  school  the  coming  year. 

Miss  Le  Favor,  who  has  spent  several 
summer  terms  at  the  O.  U.,  will  teach  at 
Garden,  Ohio,  the  coming  year. 

Mr.  Cline,  who  graduated  at  the  O.  U.  in 


man  who  is  well  liked  by  the  student  body. 
He  will  be  assistant  to  Dr.  Mercer  in  Bio- 
logy next  year.  Success  to  you,  “Mac.” 

Walter  E.  Sines,  of  Ulric,  has  had  a 
marked  success  as  a teacher.  Mr.  Sines  is 
perhaps  the  best  scholar  in  the  county  for 
his  age,  and  completes  the  course  in  the 
Pomeroy  High  School  the  coming  year. 

Aura  Caster,  of  Carpenter,  O.,  is  not  a 
teacher  but  is  aspiring  to  that  profession, 
and  with  her  natural  ability  will  make  a 
success  in  whatever  she  may  undertake. 

Miss  Mabel  Winn,  of  Rutland,  will  be  a 
student  at  the  Ohio  University. 

Miss  Lovina  Caster,  of  Carpenter,  O.,  has 
taught  in  Vinton  county  and  expects  to 
teach  the  coming  year. 

Loring  Hall,  of  Portland,  who  is  working 
out  the  preparatory  work  during  the  Sum- 
mer term  for  admission  to  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  is  one  of  the  most  successful 


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the  class  of  1900,  is  one  of  the  leading 
teachers  in  Athens  county,  and  will  have 
the  principalship  of  the  Vincent  schools  in 
Washington  county. 

Miss  Effie  Smith,  of  Rutland,  has  been 
very  successful  as  a teacher,  and  will  teach 
the  Stout  school  the  coming  year. 

J.  E.  McDaniel,  whose  likeness  appears 
on  the  back  row  third  from  left,  is  a student 
of  great  ability.  He  will  receive  his  Mas- 
ter’s Degree  at  the  end  of  the  coming  year. 
He  is  ranked  as  one  of  the  best  students 
that  ever  graduated  at  the  O.  U.  He  is  a 


teachers  in  the  county.  Mr.  Hall  has  been 
re-elected  as  principal  of  the  schools  at 
Long  Bottom  after  a very  successful  year’s 
work. 

G.  Wayne  Lutz,  of  Langsville,  whose  pic- 
ture does  not  appear  in  the  group,  is  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  most  thorough  scholars 
in  the  county.  Mr.  Lutz  has  successively 
been  re-elected  principal  of  the  schools  of 
Rutland  at  an  increased  salary.  These 
facts  are  evidences  of  his  ability  as  an  in- 
structor and  his  success  in  school  work. 

Miss  Delia  O’Connor,  of  Alice,  will  teach 


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o/ 


this  year  but  is  not  located  at  present.  She 
does  good  work  in  the  school  room. 


JACKSON  COUNTY  CLUB. 

Jackson  County,  which  always  sends  a 
large  delegation  to  “Old  O.  U.,”  formed  an 
organiation  by  electing  W.  N.  Davis  presi- 
dent and  J.  F.  Dixon  Secretary  and 
Treasurer.  The  social  benefits  derived  from 
the  organization  can  not  be  estimated.  The 
picnics  and  boat  rides  will  long  remain  a 
pleasant  memory.  Without  speaking  fur- 
ther of  the  club  in  general,  we  shall  give 
a brief  sketch  of  each  of  its  members. 

Miss  M.  Katharyn  Jones,  a graduate  of 
the  Oak  Hill  High  School,  class  of  1903,  has 
had  two  years  of  successful  experience  as 
second  grade  teacher  at  that  place.  Seeing 
the  opportunities  offered  by  Ohio  Univer- 
sity for  training  along  her  special  line  of 
work,  she  took  advantage  of  them  and  is 
not  sorry  for  so  doing. 

Miss  Jennie  Evans  is  also  a graduate  of 
the  Oak  Hill  High  School,  class  of  1904. 
She  has  had  one  year  of  experience  in 
teaching,  and  the  coming  year  will  be  en- 
gaged in  primary  work  in  the  schools  of 
Oak  Hill.  Her  experience  the  past  year, 
coupled  with  the  preparation  she  is  now 
making,  insures  for  her  a successful  future. 

Miss  Quippie  B.  Skinner,  of  Washington 
Township,  expects  to  teach  in  the  future, 
and  was  attracted  to  Ohio  University  by 
the  excellent  opportunities  for  training 
which  it  affords. 

Miss  Mertie  M.  Brohard,  of  Coalton,  is 
spending  her  second  summer  term  at  Ath- 
ens. That  her  services  as  teacher  are 
highly  appreciated  is  proven  by  the  fact  that 
this  will  be  her  fifth  succeeding  year  at 
Goldsboro. 

Mr.  Clyde  A.  Clark,  after  having  taught 
two  years  in  Gallia  county,  came  to  Milton 
township,  Jackson  county,  this  making  his 
second  year  at  that  place.  He  is  a young 
man  of  a promising  future. 

Miss  Aliena  M.  Brookins,  of  Jackson,  has 
had  two  years’  experience  as  bookkeeper, 
being  formerly  employed  by  the  “Wellston 
Telegram.”  She  is  attending  the  summer 
term  to  more  fully  equip  herself  for  that 
line  of  work. 

Mr.  J.  F.  Dixon,  of  Jefferson  township, 
holds  an  enviable  record  in  his  two  terms’ 


work  as  teacher.  His  record  as  a student 
in  the  university  stands  parallel  with  his 
success  as  a teacher,  and  no  doubt  some 
day  he  will  reaj^  the  fruits  of  his  persever- 
ance and  industry. 

Miss  Ada  Harper,  of  Jackson  township, 
attended  both  the  spring  and  summer  terms 
of  Ohio  University.  She  is  a painstaking 
student,  and  we  predict  for  her  a success- 
ful future  on  account  of  her  careful  prepar- 
ation. 

Mr.  Earle  D.  Martin  also  represents  Jack- 
son  township.  He  expects  to  teach  the  com- 
ing year,  and  being  one  of  that  class  who 
believe  in  a thorough  preparation  for  their 
work,  he  wisely  decided  to  attend  Ohio 
University. 

Mr.  Harold  Hayes,  of  Scioto  township, 
has  had  one  year  of  experience  as  a teacher. 
He  is  a type  of  the  country  boy  whose  as- 
pirations for  a higher  education  always 
lead  to  success. 

Miss  Mabel  Hunsinger,  of  Washington 
township,  has  taught  three  years  in  Vinton 
and  Jackson  counties.  She  has  been  very 
successful  as  a teacher,  and  doubtless  her 
normal  training  will  better  qualify  her  for 
the  duties  of  the  schoolroom. 

Miss  Mary  F.  Reed,  also  of  Washington 
township,  holds  certificates  in  both  Jack- 
son  and  Vinton  counties.  She  has  taught 
for  eight  years.  Her  services  have  been 

A 

greatly  appreciated  and  will  be  even  more 
so  after  her  present  preparation. 

Mr.  William  Howell,  although  from  an- 
other state  is  from  Jackson  county;  hence 
we  adopt  him  as  one  of  our  number.  For 
some  reason  unknown  to  most  of  us  our 
club  possessed  peculiar  attractions  for  him, 
and  being  a Jackson  Countian,  his  member- 
ship was  enthusiastically  received.  He  will 
be  located  at  Murraysviile(  W.  Va.,  the 
coming  year  as  teacher  at  that  place. 

Miss  Hannah  Ethel  Clark,  who  has  been 
successfully  engaged  in  the  teaching  pro- 
fession for  nine  years  in  Gallia  and  Jackson 
counties,  will  be  located  in  Madison  town- 
ship the  coming  year.  Doubtless  much  of 
her  success  may  be  attributed  to  her  schol- 
arship. She  holds  five-year  certificates  in 
both  Jackson  and  Gallia  counties. 

Mr.  T.  N.  Hoover,  who  graduated  from 
the  Jackson  High  School  several  years  ago 
and  from  Ohio  University  this  year,  is  still 
with  us.  We  are  proud  that  Jackson  county 


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furnishes  two  members  of  the  summer 
school  faculty,  one  of  whom  is  Mr.  Hoover. 
His  ability  as  a student,  particularly  of 
history,  has  won  for  him  the  confidence  of 
the  authorities  of  the  University,  and  as  a 
result  much  of  his  time  has  been  devoted 
to  tutoring  at  O.  U.  He  is  an  accomplished 
vocalist,  being  a member  of  the  college 
quartet.  A great  deal  of  his  elective  work 
has  been  along  that  line.  Owing  to  his 
unusual  abilities  we  predict  for  him  the 
chair  of  History  in  some  institution  of 
higher  learning. 

Mr.  G.  L.  Ely,  of  Wellston,  has  had  nine 
years’  experience  at  that  place,  five  of 
which  were  in  the  High  School.  Having  a 
desire  to  better  equip  himself  for  teaching 
he  entered  Ohio  University,  and  will  have 
completed  his  course  at  the  close  of  the 
present  term.  His  elective  work  has  been 
chiefly  along  the  line  of  Languages  and 
School  Supervision.  As  a student  he  has 
been  conscientious  and  painstaking,  the  re- 
sult of  which  is  a broad  scholarship.  This, 
in  addition  to  his  experience,  thoroughly 
equips  him  for  High  School  work.  His 
charming  disposition  at  once  makes  an  im- 
pression upon  those  with  whom  he  comes 
in  contact.  In  short,  he  is  a product  of 
which  Jackson  county  may  truly  feel 
proud. 

W.  N.  Davis  is  on  his  second  year  as 
principal  of  the  Oak  Hill  High  School.  As 
an  educator  of  recognized  ability  he  stands 
in  the  very  fore-front  in  his  county.  At 
present  he  is  a member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Jackson  County  Institute; 
is  connected  with  the  “Ohio  Teacher”  as 
a contribuior  to  the  department  of  Mathe- 
matics; is  one  of  the  authors  of  Ohio  Ex- 
aminations and  Answers.  His  solutions  of 
the  problems  in  Algebra  given  by  the  State 
Board  of  Examiners  for  1904-5  are  accurate 
and  spiced  with  a wholesome  originality. 
Has  been  a student  in  the  “O.  U.”  for  sev- 
eral terms;  is  about  23  years  of  age;  un- 
married, but  possesses  certain  amiable 
qualities  which  will  make  him  a successful 
candidate  when  ready  for  matrimonial  ven- 
tures. Success  to  Davis! 

Prof.  D.  J.  Evans,  the  well  known  head 
of  the  Department  of  Latin  in  the  “O.  U.” 
began  his  career  as  a teacher  in  the  com- 
mon schools  in  Jefferson  Township,  Jack- 
son  County.  From  this  humble  position  of 


responsibility  he  steadily  advanced  until  he 
has  attained  his  present  place  of  preemi- 
nence as  a Latin  scholar  and  as  instructor 
in  the  department  of  Ancient  History. 
Jackson  County  has  sent  out  many  of  her 
sons  to  places  of  honor,  both  as  statesmen 
and  educators,  but  among  the  educators 
none  more  entitled  to  be  enrolled  among 
her  famous  citizens  than  Prof.  Evans. 


PERRY  COUNTY  CLUB. 

Perry  County,  true  to  its  patron  saint, 
Phil.  Sheridan,  who  believed  in  “getting 
there,”  and  yet  unlike  him,  who  upon  a 
certain  occasion  was  a little  late,  was  the 
first  county  to  perfect  its  organization. 

There  is  something  in  Perry  County  soil 
that  is  especially  conducive  to  the  growth 
of  office-seekers.  When  the  Summer  School 
students  met  for  organization  trouble  at 
once  began,  for  everybody  wanted  an  office. 
Whereupon  a “Henry  Clay”  at  once  pre- 
pared a compromise,  viz.,  that  enough 
offices  be  created  to  “go  around.”  It  was 
a happy  thought.  A suitable  monument 
will  be  erected  to  his  memory.  It  will 
stand  in  the  public  square  at  Rehoboth, 
Perry  county. 

The  result  of  the  election  was  entirely 
satisfactory.  Supt.  C.  L.  Martzolff,  be- 
cause of  his  abundance  of  dignity  and  scarc- 
ity of  capilary  covering,  due  to  early 
piety,  was  unanimously  elected  Dean. 
Prin.  J.  M.  Gordon  was  given  the  pleasant 
duty  of  carrying  the  “big  stick”  by  electing 
him  chief-of-police. 

The  club  started  out  with  thirty  charter 
members,  but  there  has  been  a steady  in- 
crease in  membership  from  the  very  first. 
This  is  due,  in  a great  measure,  to  the 
numerous  members  from  other  clubs  who 
know  a good  thing.  To  be  more  specific — 
Sir  Edmund,  who  holds  the  position  as 
Chief  Oracle,  says  that  Perry  County 
Boards  of  Education  do  not  employ  any 
“school-marms”  over  twenty-two  years  of 
age. 

Though  all  our  teachers  are  awake  to 
the  rare  opportunities  of  O.  U.  this  sum- 
mer, yet  only  one  member  of  the  club 
seems  to  be  getting  “Wise.”  There  is  also 
another  one  who  is  seriously  thinking  of 
raising  a “Howl.” 

Lawyer  and  Beck,  who  were  raised  in 
Thorn  township  on  a farm,  find  it  neces- 


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sary  to  go  out  in  the  country  every  Sunday 
evening  to  get  a square  meal,  where  the 
food  is  not  put  on  the  table  in  side-dishes, 
where  they  can  get  a sniff  of  clover-hay 
and  penny-royal,  renew  their  acquaintance 
with  the  pigs  and  ducks,  and  listen  to  the 
dulcet  music  of  the  silver-throated  mos- 
quito. 

What  They  Take. — For  the  benefit  of 
Perry  County  Boards  of  Education,  it 
might  be  interesting  and  profitable  to  know 
what  the  various  members  of  the  club  are 
“taking”  in  the  summer  school.  Martzolff 
is  taking  “Zane’s  Trace.”  Gordon  is  really 
working  “Trig.”  Beck,  Jr.,  takes  walks  on 
the  asylum  grounds.  Lawyer  takes  his 
meals.  Ridenour,  Jr.,  takes  “Babian.” 
Schneider  takes  everything.  Beck,  Sr., 
takes  anything.  The  lady  members  take 
ice  cream. 

“Campus-ology”  is  also  a favorite  sub- 
ject. There  has  been  considerable  discus- 
ion  in  the  club  as  to  whether  “Campus- 
ology”  was  really  a subject  of  study  or  not. 
It  has  been  decided  in  the  negative,  that  it 
is  not  a study.  Neither  does  the  name  suit 
the  conditions.  It’s  a disease,  and  hence- 
forth it  will  appear  in  college  therapeautics 
as  “campus-itis.” 


OTTAWA  COUNTY  CLUB. 

LITTLE,  far-away,  historic  Ottawa  coun- 
ty, whose  islands  are  the  home  of  the 
Ohio  State  Teachers’  Association,  and 
whose  public  schools  are  second  to  none 
in  the  state,  sent  ten  teachers  to  the  Sum- 
mer School — eight  from  Oak  Harbor  and 
two  from  Port  Clinton. 

The  picture  shows  the  club  seated  at 
their  Fourth  of  July  dinner.  Beginning  at 
the  left,  the  names  are  as  follows:  Misses 
Louise  Schenerman,  Minnie  Pomrenke, 
Nellie  Thompson,  Bertha  Van  Thron,  Cora 
Link,  Mr.  G.  F.  Aschbacher,  Mrs.  G.  F. 
Aschbacher,  Misses  Lizzie  Veh,  Charlotte 
Ward,  and  Mrs.  Sarah  R.  Gill.  The  picture 
was  taken  by  Supt.  H.  H.  Hoffman,  of  Oak 
Harbor,  who  was  down  on  a brief  visit. 
They  all  lived  at  the  home  of  F.  W.  Bush, 
36  South  College  St.,  Athens,  during  the 
Summer  Term.  They  were  a happy  family. 
Music,  good  cheer,  and  college  duties  kept 
them  busy  from  early  morning  till  late  at 
night.  We  hope  that  the  sacrifice  they  made 


in  leaving  the  cool  lake  breezes  and  coming 
to  Athens  in  the  heat  of  summer  may  be 
atoned  for  by  the  good  things  the  O.  U. 
offers  to  all. 


FRANKLIN  COUNTY  CLUB. 

TEN  happy,  industrious  girls  from  Co- 
lumbus and  vicinity  graced  the  Ohio 
University  Summer  School  by  their 
presence.  Beginning  at  the  left  in  the  pic- 
ture they  are: 

1.  Grace  Leckliter,  who  will  teach  in 
Worthington. 

2.  Jennie  Wilson,  who  will  teach  in  Dis- 
trict No.  1,  Sharon  township. 

3.  Eva  McCoy  will  teach  in  District  No. 
5,  Norwich  township. 

4.  Myra  Sherman  will  teach  at  Shades- 
ville. 

5.  Maude  Jeffries  will  also  teach  at 
Shadesville. 

6.  Eva  Sale  will  teach  in  Blendon  town- 
ship. 

7.  Adella  Coe  will  teach  in  Blendon 
township. 

8.  Minnie  Darst  will  teach  in  Shades- 
ville. 

9.  Vinnie  Hard  will  teach  in  Sharon 
township. 

10.  Margaret  Marshall  will  teach  at  No. 
4,  Sharon  township. 


16th  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT  CLUB 
PICTURE. 

The  names  of  16th  Congressional  District 
Club  people  are  as  follows:  Beginning  at 
the  left  the  row  standing:  H.  O.  Young,  R. 

E.  Carman,  E.  J.  Herbst,  F.  O.  Martin,  G.  F. 
Creamer,  Effie  J.  Farmer,  Gail  Patterson, 
Elizabeth  M.  Schell.  The  middle  row,  be- 
ginning on  the  left:  F.  B.  Milhoan,  Lillie 
Buchhagen,  Annetta  A.  A.  Higgins,  J.  E. 
Ring,  Edna  Buchhagan,  Sarah  E.  Rine, 
Georgia  Herbst,  Margaret  A.  Nesbit,  C.  M. 
Copeland,  Nell  L.  Voegtly,  Martha  H.  Wei- 
gel, Hattie  Thompson.  Those  seated  are  as 
follows:  E.  E.  Lucas,  F.  L.  Maris,  Helen 
Porter,  Anna  McGough,  Lola  M.  Allison, 

F.  D.  Ring,  Zella  Evans,  W.  T.  Morgan. 

The  16th  Congressional  District  is  com- 
posed of  the  following  counties:  Carroll 
Jefferson,  Harrison,  Belmont  and  Monroe. 
Each  county  has  the  following  representa- 
tives: Jefferson — Helen  Porter,  Lillie  Buch- 


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hagen,  Lola  M.  Allison,  Edna  Buchhagen, 
Annetta  A.  Higgins,  Georgia  Herbst,  Zella 
Evans,  Effie  J.  Farmer,  R.  E.  Carman,  Nell 
Cox,  Minnie  Bertram,  Mrs.  McCullough,  E. 
J.  Herbst,  J.  F.  Reynolds,  Julia  Geisy,  Ger- 
trude Geisy.  Belmont  County — F.  D.  Ring, 
W.  T.  Morgan,  E.  E.  Lucas,  G.  F.  Creamer, 
F.  B.  Milhoan,  F.  L.  Maris,  Gail  Patterson, 
Sarah  E.  Rine,  Margaret  A.  Nesbitt,  J.  E. 
Ring,  Anna  McGough.  Monroe  County — 
Hattie  Thompson,  Elizabeth  M.  Schell,  Nell 
L.  Voegtly,  F.  O.  Martin,  H.  O.  Young.  Har- 
rison County— C.  M.  Copeland,  W.  F.  Cope- 
land. Carroll  County— Martha  H.  Weigel. 

Prof.  C.  M.  Copeland,  of  Harrison  county 
delegation,  now  occupying  a chair  in  the 
O.  U.,  entertained  the  members  of  the  16th 
District  at  his  home  on  the  evening  of  the 
17th  of  July.  An  excellent  time  was  en- 
joyed by  all. 

Personal  Mention. — H.  O.  Young,  Supt.  of 
Beallsville  schools.  R.  E.  Carman  expects 
to  be  in  school  the  coming  year.  E.  J. 
Herbst  is  a student  of  the  Steubenville 
High  School.  F.  O.  Martin  will  attend  the 
Starling  Medical  College  next  year.  G.  F. 
Creamer  is  a teacher  in  the  Belmont  Co. 
schools.  Misses  Tanner,  Edna  Buchhagen, 
Lillie  Buchhagen,  Georgia  Herbst,  Helen 
Porter  and  Lola  Allison  are  teachers  in  the 
Steubenville  schools.  Misses  Margaret  A. 
Nesbitt  and  Gail  Patterson  are  teachers  in 
the  Bellaire  schools.  F.  B.  Milhoan  expects 
to  be  at  O.  U.  next  two  years.  Miss  A.  Hig- 
gins is  a teacher  in  the  Smithfield  schools. 
J.  E.  Ring  is  a principal  in  the  Martins 
Ferry  schools.  Mrs.  Rine  and  Miss  Mc- 
Gough are  teachers  in  the  Bridgeport 
schools.  Miss  Voegtly  is  the  intermediate 
teacher  in  the  Hannibal  schools.  Miss 
Martha  Weigel  is  the  third  grade  teacher  in 
the  Salineville  schools.  Miss  Hattie  Thomp- 
son is  the  primary  teacher  in  the  Sardis 
schools.  E.  E.  Lucas  is  Supt.  of  the  Bel- 
mont schools.  F.  L.  Maris  is  Supt.  of  Be- 
thesda  schools.  F.  D.  Ring  is  Supt.  at  Mt. 
Pleasant.  Miss  Evans  will  be  at  O.  U.  next 
year.  W.  F.  Morgan  is  Supt.  of  Twin  town- 
ship schools,  Ross  county.  Miss  Schell  will 
in  the  near  future  leave  the  pedagogical 
profession  to  enter  a more  lucrative  one. 


THE  SIXTEENTH  HAD  A GOOD  TIME. 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  C.  M.  Copeland  and  Prof. 
W.  F.  Copeland  delightfully  entertained  the 


members  of  the  Sixteenth  Congressional 
District  and  invited  guests  at  their  pleasant 
home  on  Morris  Avenue  Monday  evening, 
July  17. 

There  were  about  forty  present,  and  after 
a jolly  search  to  find  the  members  of  the 
Cat  family,  which  was  presented  to  each  on 
entering  the  parlors,  it  was  found  that 
twelve  had  succeeded  in  guessing  them 
correctly. 

To  decide  the  winner  these  drew  their 
favorite  cat.  Miss  Bess  Wagner’s  cat  was 
given  first  prize  although  F.  D.  Ring’s  was 
a close  second. 

Dainty  refreshments  were  then  served, 
after  which  the  mind  of  each  seemed  on 
poetry  bent,  and  as  suggestive  words  were 
given  each,  the  Muse  was  kept  busy  trying 
to  make  impossible  rhymes  from  inexpres- 
sible thoughts.  Some  seemed  to  write  with 
inspired  pen,  while  others  were  so  over- 
come by  fond  remembrances  that  they 
could  not  write  a word. 

As  the  guests  departed  each  expressed 
the  common  thought  that  they  were  in- 
debted to  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Copeland  for  the 
most  pleasant  evening  of  the  Summer  term. 


FIFTEENTH  CONGRESSIONAL  DIS- 
TRICT CLUB  PICTURE. 

First,  row,  in  front,  beginning  on  left: 
Jesse  Cummings,  C.  W.  Cramer,  Bessie 
Hunter,  B.  A.  Place,  Charlotte  Ellenwood, 
W.  E.  Ellison,  Virgie  Pugh. 

Second  row. — Miss  Eldridge,  Mr.  Dicker- 
son,  Bertha  Carpenter,  B.  F.  Young,  Mar- 
garet Friel,  Mr.  Schneider. 

Rear  row. — Grace  McBride,  Mr.  Kirkbride, 
Mr.  Colter,  Mr.  Blackstone,  Mr.  Samuel 
McAstor. 


PICKAWAY  COUNTY  CLUB. 

THE  CLUB  was  organized  early  in  the 
beginning  of  the  term.  It  was  a 
pleasant  surprise,  when  the  different 
students  from  the  broad  and  fertile  plains 
of  old  Pickaway  gathered  in  response  to 
the  call  for  organization,  to  find  more  than 
a score  of  O.  U.’s  best  in  the  crowd.  This 
was  a good  increase  over  last  year,  when 
the  number  was  little  more  than  a dozen. 

The  members  of  the  club  are  as  follows: 
O.  C.  Creighton,  Pres.;  Alice  Tarbill,  Sec.; 
Mary  Armstrong,  Fannie  Sawyer,  F.  M. 


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Porter,  Executive  Committee;  Brunnelle 
Parrett,  Evelyn  Cosgrove,  Daisy  Lower, 
Florence  Hoffman,  Grace  Linville,  Mary 
Eaton,  Ethel  Asher,  Ilo  Maddox,  Blanch 
Alexander,  Grace  Reichelderfer,  Margurette 
Clark,  Nellie  Cullums,  Mary  Porter,  Allie 
Hott,  Gertie  Matz,  Flora  Wiest,  Bessie 
Cookley,  T.  B.  Work,  Pearl  Mowery. 

A few  of  the  number  are  regular  stu- 
dents in  the  University.  Mr.  T.  B.  Work 
has  been  in  the  shorter  course  in  Electrical 
Engineering,  having  completed  that  course 
in  June.  He  was  recently  elected  to  a 
lucrative  position  with  the  Scioto  Valley 
Traction  Co.  F.  M.  Porter  has  been  doing 
work  for  three  years  in  the  regular  course 
leading  to  a degree  in  Electrical  Engineer- 
ing, being  a member  of  the  class  of  ’06.  O. 
C.  Creighton  has  been  doing  work  for  the 
past  two  years.  He  will  be  out  of  school 
next  year,  having  been  elected  to  a High 
School  position  at  Glenford,  Ohio. 

The  behavior  of  the  boys  and  girls  from 
Pickaway  has  been  commendable  and  prais- 
worthy  in  every  respect.  Like  the  other 
members  of  the  Summer  School,  they  took 
a reasonable  number  of  hours  of  campus- 
ology,  and  had  a good  time,  but  back  of  all 
this  a goodly  degree  of  earnestness  was 
manifested,  and  all  feel  benefltted  by  hav- 
ing attended  the  Summer  Term  of  1905. 

Next  Summer  Term  is  being  looked  for- 
ward to  with  hopes  of  finding  the  number 
again  doubled,  but  it  is  not  only  this  that 
shows  the  interest  in  O.  U.,  for  there  are 
several  who  are  planning  to  take  up  regular 
work  in  the  near  future.  Among  the  num- 
ber are  Misses  Cosgrove,  Lower,  Alexander, 
Asher,  Porter  and  Tarbill. 

The  Picture. — Front  row,  beginning  on 
the  left:  Brunelle  Parrett,  Evelyn  Cos- 
grove, Gertie  Matz,  Daisy  Lower,  F.  M. 
Porter,  Mary  Armstrong,  Grace  Reichelder- 
fer, Florence  Hoffman,  Allie  Hott.  The  rear 
row:  Pearl  Mowery,  Grace  Linville,  Ilo 

Maddox,  Mary  Porter,  Nellie  Cullums,  Ethel 
Asher,  Blanche  Alexander,  Bessie  Coakley, 
Margurette  Clark,  Alice  Tarbill,  Mary 
Eaton  and  O.  C.  Creighton. 


PREBLE  COUNTY  CLUB. 

Four  years  ago  three  from  Preble  county 
attended  Ohio  Univerity.  The  following 
year  there  were  eight,  the  next  sixteen,  and 
this  year  there  were  nineteen.  Of  those  in 


attendance  this  year  nine  are  from  Harri- 
son township,  nine  from  Monroe  and  one 
from  Gratis.  The  following  notes  begin  at 
the  left  of  the  front  row  and  the  left  of 
the  second  row.  (See  picture). 

First  Row, 

V.  J.  Shi  It  is  principal  of  the  West  Balti- 
more school  in  Harrison  Township.  He  is 
a teacher  of  many  years  successful  exper- 
ience. The  summers  of  1904  and  1905  were 
spent  at  O.  U.  fitting  himself  for  his  work. 

Miss  Edna  Locke  graduated  from  Harri- 
son Township  High  School  in  the  class  of 
1903.  After  reviewing  one  year  she  was 
employed  in  the  Primary  Department  of 
Euphemia  school,  where  she  did  very  suc- 
cessful work.  She  will  teach  the  same 
school  this  year.  In  summer  school  of  1905 
she  is  doing  work  in  Model  School  that  she 
may  be  the  better  prepared  for  her  work. 

Supt.  M.  M.  Leiter,  of  Lewisburg,  was  re- 
elected last  spring  for  two  years  with  an 
increase  in  salary  from  $595  to  $720  a year. 
He  is  an  untiring  school  man,  always  look- 
ing toward  advancement  for  himself  and 
his  school.  He  is  one  of  Preble  county’s 
most  promising  superintendents.  His  sum- 
mers are  always  occupied  in  advance  work. 
He  attended  summer  terms  in  O.  U.  in  1904 
and  1905. 

Frank  Schlosser,  after  having  taken  re- 
view work  in  the  Eldorado  Public  Schools, 
taught  in  the  rural  schools  of  Monroe 
township  for  five  years.  His  work  next 
year  will  be  as  principal  of  the  Eldorado 
Public  Schools.  He  has  spent  the  summer 
at  Athens  in  prepartion  for  his  work. 

Miss  Mary  G.  Swartzel  has  had  success  in 
teaching  that  has  been  more  than  ordinary. 
She  taught  several  years  in  rural  schools. 
Her  advancement  has  been  gradual.  She 
taught  in  the  grades  at  Eldorado  and 
Euphemia  for  several  years.  Her  last  work 
was  as  principal  at  New  Paris.  A Common 
School  Life  certificate  was  granted  her  a 
few  years  ago.  She  has  excellent  ability 
and  is  a hard  working  student.  Her  strong 
individuality  gives  her  a power  for  good  in 
leading  children  toward  higher  ideals.  She 
has  a high  school  education  and  a degree 
of  B.  S.  from  Lebanon.  Her  work  at  Athens 
this  summer  has  been  to  fit  her  for  higher 
duties,  broader  experience  and  greater  re- 
sponsibility. 

Supt.  C.  S.  Bunger,  of  the  Harrison  Town- 


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ship  Schools,  has  been  in  attendance  at  O. 
U.  summer  school  for  the  last  four  con- 
secutive years.  Supt.  Bunger  has  had  long 
experience  in  the  various  grades  of  school 
work.  He  taught  for  several  years  in  the 
country  schools,  served  as  principal  of  the 
New  Paris  High  School,  after  which  he  was 
elected  Supt.  of  the  Eldorado  schools,  which 
position  he  resigned  four  years  later  to  ac- 
cept the  superintendency  of  the  Harrison 
township  schools.  He  has  held  this  position 
four  years  and  has  a contract  for  two  years 
more  at  an  increase  in  salary  of  $35  per 
month.  He  holds  a High  School  State  cer- 
tificate, and  is  a thorough  and  a progressive 
school  man.  His  board  shows  its  apprecia- 
tion of  his  work  in  a material  way,  and 
several  of  his  teachers  show  their  progres- 
sive spirit  by  attending  the  O.  U.  summer 
school.  Things  are  moving  in  Harrison 
township  schools. 

Supt.  C.  F.  Geeting,  after  attending  High 
school  at  West  Manchester,  taught  in  the 
rural  schools  of  Preble  county  for  several 
years.  He  served  as  principal  at  West 
Manchester  three  years.  In  the  meantime 
he  attended  school  during  vacation.  Since 
then  he  has  served  as  Township  Supt.  The 
schools  under  his  management  have  contin- 
ually advanced.  His  studies  have  been  pur- 
sued at  Lebanon  and  seven  terms  were 
spent  at  Athens.  He  is  earnest  and  con- 
scientious. He  is  striving  to  give  Monroe 
Township  a more  ideal  standard.  He  holds 
first  class  common  and  high  school  certifi- 
cates, and  last  June  was  one  of  the  success- 
ful applicants  for  a state  common  school 
life  certificate.  His  future  is  promising, 
nothing  but  the  best  satisfies. 

Miss  Elva  Trump,  of  West  Manchester,  is 
a graduate  of  Monroe  Township  high 
school,  and  attended  the  O.  U.  summer 
school  in  1903  and  1905.  She  taught  the 
primary  room  at  West  Manchester  four 
years.  She  has  taken  work  in  the  Model 
School  both  terms  and  is  an  enthusiastic 
and  a successful  teacher. 

Harry  MoCoy  is  a graduate  of  Eldorado 
public  schools.  After  reviewing  one  year, 
he  taught  school.  He  is  re-employed  for 
next  year.  He  has  attended  school  at 
Athens  for  three  consecutive  summers.  He 
is  a good  natured  fellow  and  an  enthusiast 
in  athletics. 


Second  Row. 

Mr.  Oca  Hoerner  is  one  of  Harrison 

Township’s  most  progressive  young  teach- 
ers. He  is  a graduate  of  the  Township  High 
school  and  was  immediately  employed  in 
the  township  on  leaving  the  high  school. 
He  has  been  re-employed  for  the  third  year 
in  the  same  school.  His  last  three  summers 
have  been  spent  in  work  at  O.  U. 

Mr.  Guy  Frantz  is  a member  of  the  class 
of  1905  of  Harrison  Township  High  school. 
He  attended  summer  school  in  1905  at  O. 
U.,  giving  his  time  to  review  of  common 
branches  with  a view  to  taking  teacher’s 
examination. 

Supt.  Chas.  M.  Agler,  of  Eldorado,  came 
to  Ohio  from  Illinois  eight  years  ago,  and 
has  been  a teacher  in  the  public  schools  of 
Monroe  Township  and  Eldorado.  He  was 
elected  principal  of  the  high  school  at  El- 
dorado for  three  years  and  last  spring  was 
elected  to  the  superintendency,  a just  recog- 
nition of  his  faithful  work  in  the  high 
school.  Supt.  Agler  is  a graduate  of  the 
normal  school  at  Danville,  Ind.,  and  has 
spent  his  time  in  spring  and  summer  terms 
of  O.  U.  for  the  last  four  years.  He  was  re- 
cently granted  first  class  certificates,  ele- 
mentary and  high  school  in  Preble  Co.,  and 
was  one  of  the  successful  applicants  for 
common  school  life  certificate  at  the  last 
State  examination.  He  is  one  of  Preble’s 
most  successful  school  men. 

Mr.  Homer  Gifford,  of  West  Elkton,  is  a 
1905  graduate  of  the  West  Elkton  High 
school  and  is  taking  work  in  the  summer 
school  to  fit  himself  for  teaching. 

Prin.  Chas.  A.  Hoffman,  of  High  school  of 
Harrison  township,  is  one  of  the  township’s 
faithful  teachers.  He  has  been  re-elected 
for  the  fifth  year.  He  attended  the  summer 
school  of  O.  U.  in  the  summers  of  1904  and 
1905. 

Mr.  D.  A.  Petry,  of  West  Manchester,  has 
been  in  attendance  at  the  O.  U.  summer 
school  the  past  two  years.  Mr.  Petry  has 
had  seven  years  of  successful  experience 
as  a teacher  and  at  present  is  teaching  in 
the  grades  at  West  Manchester,  where  he 
is  doing  most  thorough  work. 

Mr.  Harry  Hoffman  is  a member  of  the 
class  of  1903  Harrison  Township  High 
school,  and  is  one  of  Jefferson  Township’s 
teachers  for  the  coming  year.  He  has  at- 
tended O.  U.  summer  terms,  1904  and  1905. 


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Mr.  Edward  Coovert  graduated  from  the 
Eldorado  public  schools  in  1904.  He  re- 
viewed last  year.  He  is  employed  as 
teacher  in  the  Eldorado  schools  for  next 
year.  He  spent  the  summer  at  Athens  so 
as  to  be  well  prepared  for  his  work. 

Miss  Sylvia  Trump  is  a 1902  graduate  of 
the  Monroe  Township  high  school.  The 
next  year  she  reviewed  and  the  following 
year  she  taught  a district  school  in  the 
township.  Last  year  she  taught  the  pri- 
mary room  at  West  Manchester  and  has 
been  re-employed  for  the  coming  year.  She 
is  taking  work  in  the  Model  School  and  is 
ambitious  to  prepare  herself  for  still  more 
successful  work. 

Miss  Gladys  Hoerner  is  a member  of  the 
class  of  1905  Harrison  Township  high 
school.  She  obtained  a teacher’s  certificate 
before  graduating  from  high  school.  She 
did  work  in  Model  School  O.  U.  summer  of 
1905,  that  she  may  be  prepared  the  better 
to  enter  upon  her  duties  as  teacher  in  in- 
termediate department  of  Euphemia  schools. 


LICKING  COUNTY  NOTES. 

The  Licking  County  Club  this  year  num- 
bered 25,  nearly  all  of  them  being  members 
of  the  same  boarding  club,  with  Mr.  G.  A. 
Bricker  as  steward. 

For  the  purpose  of  social  advantages  the 
students  from  this  county  formed  themselves 
into  an  organization,  choosing  Mr.  J.  W. 
Adams  as  president.  The  accompanying 
cut  shows  the  faces  of  the  greater  number 
of  this  club,  some  unfortunately  being  ab- 
sent at  the  time  the  picture  was  taken.  The 
names  of  those  in  this  picture,  beginning 
with  the  front  row  at  the  left  are:  J.  L. 
Jones,  Flavia  Dunston,  J.  L.  Clifton,  Fannie 
K.  Gray,  Ray  Ridenour,  Grace  Edgerly,  F. 
F.  Orr,  Mrs.  Evans.  Second  row,  at  left: 

C.  J.  Hisey,  Elizabeth  Colville,  May  Duns- 
ton, P.  L.  Scheidegger,  Josie  Crotinger, 
Stanley  Crow,  Rose  Vanasdal.  Third 
row,  left:  C.  V.  Bebout,  J.  W.  Adams,  H. 

D.  Willison,  R.  A.  Wright,  Paul  Hamilton. 
Those  who  were  members  of  this  club 

but  were  not  present  when  the  picture  was 
take  are:  G.  A.  Bricker,  Bessie  Manley, 
Orpha  Miller,  Mrs.  C.  V.  Bebout  and  Maudie 
Bebout.  This  county  was  well  represented 
in  the  different  departments  of  the  institu- 
tion, and  especially  are  the  young  ladies 
taking  instruction  in  Primary  Methods. 


Altogether  they  are  a wide  awake,  social, 
congenial  set  of  young  people,  who  are  here 
for  personal  improvement  and  better  equip- 
ment for  their  school  duties. 


LICKING  COUNTY  NOTES. 

FOR  the  greater  convenience  of  his  lady 
friends,  Mr.  Jonnie  Jones,  our-six- 
footer,  has  placed  an  order  with 
Sears,  Roebuck  & Co.  for  a folding  ladder. 

Mr.  H.  D.  Willison  was  granted  a degree 
of  S.  S.  B.  at  the  close  of  the  summer 
school.  That  his  friends  may  not  get  this 
degree  confused  with  the  regular  college 
degrees,  we  will  explain  that  it  means 
Bachelor  of  Scientific  Spooning. 

Jones  and  Bebout — the  long  and  short 
of  our  county. 

The  Faculty  of  the  University  found 
themselves  confronted  with  a very  serious 
problem  when  they  endeavored  to  supply 
the  Department  of  Chemistry  with  appara- 
tus while  Willison  and  Adams  were  per- 
forming their  experiments  in  chemistry. 

Mr.  Paul  Hamilton  was  a member  of  the 
summer  school  quartette.  He  says  that  if 
any  of  the  summer  school  girls  wish  to 
walk  up  street  with  him  they  may  do  so 
simply  by  asking. 

Supt.  Bebout  was  president  of  the  sum- 
mer school  literary  society. 

Scheidegger’s  a jolly  good  fellow,  his 
color  is  not  yellow,  yet  a great  worker  is 
he.  He  took  botany,  and  pressed  his  speci- 
mens at  night. 

G.  A.  Bricker,  the  Licking  county  repre- 
sentative in  the  West  Wing,  looked  after 
the  Jolly  people  of  Vinton  county. 

To  John  “Sullivan”  Clifton  belongs  the 
pugilistic  championship  of  the  summer 
school.  The  manner  in  which  he  punished 
three  ruffians  one  evening  on  the  campus, 
would  do  credit  to  any  O.  U.  student.  We’ll 
bet  on  Clifton  every  time. 

There  were  three  Crows  in  the  summer 
school.  The  one  from  Licking  county  was 
Gray  (’s). 

Miss  Maud  Bebout  was  perhaps  the 
youngest  student  in  the  summer  school 
from  abroad,  being  nine  years  old. 

We  are,  we  are,  we  are  the, 
P-E-O-P-LrE,  Licking ! 


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A GROUP  OF  THE  ORATORICAL 
STUDENTS. 

A PLEASANT  feature  of  the  summer 
school  was  the  Oratorical  Depart- 
ment, under  direction  of  Miss  Leo- 
nora E.  Shaw.  The  following  courses  of 
study  were  taken  up: 

I — Voice  Culture.  Training  and  culture 
of  the  speaking  voice.  Voice  treated  as  an 
instrument  to  respond  to  the  promptings 
of  the  soul. 

II — Physical  Culture.  For  health,  strength 
and  grace,  equalization  of  energy.  Adapta- 
tion to  public  schools. 

Ill — Reading  and  Speaking.  Studies  in 
literary  interpretation;  practice  to  open 
the  avenues  of  expression  and  quicken  the 
imagination;  class  recitals;  public  recitals. 

IV — Fencing.  Exercises  for  training 
hand,  eye,  and  foot.  They  develop  quickness 
and  dexterity.  Fencing  develops  the  shoul- 
ders, the  chest,  trains  the  eye  to  certainty, 
and  makes  the  hand  sure  in  every  move- 
ment. A development  for  both  mind  and 
body. 

Each  Thursday  afternoon  during  the  term 
a public  recital  was  held  in  the  Auditorium. 

A play  entitled  “Rebecca’s  Triumph”  was 
given  Friday  evening,  July  14,  by  fourteen 
young  ladies  of  this  department. 

The  “Rebecca’s  Triumph”  cast  formed  a 
jolly  driving  party  to  Amesville,  where  the 
play  was  repeated  to  an  enthusiastic  au- 
dience. 

Miss  Shaw  went  directly  from  Athens  to 
Chautauqua,  N.  Y.,  where  she  will  spend  a 
month  in  study  at  the  Chautauqua  School 
of  Expressions. 


NOTES  ON  THE  BASE  BALL  TEAM. 

NAMES  beginning  at  left:  (see  pic- 
ture.) Finney,  Crow,  Elder,  Crow. 
Morgan,  (Capt.),  McCoy,  (Mgr.), 
Herbst,  Hoffman,  Sharp,  and  Frantz. 

Although  the  members  of  the  team  found 
it  impossible  to  do  any  regular  practicing, 
they  managed  to  do  a little  at  odd  times. 
The  first  game  was  played  against  Perry 
Co.,  when  the  braves  of  that  county  met  de- 
feat by  the  score  of  10  to  4.  The  main  fea- 
tures of  this  game  were  the  battery  work  of 
Hoffman  and  Frantz  and  the  heavy  batting 
of  Clifton  and  Crow. 

The  following  week  Perry  county’s  ban- 
ners were  again  trailed  in  the  dust.  This 


time  to  the  tune  of  7 to  2.  In  this  game 
Clifton  twirled  for  the  ’Varsity,  and  but  one 
hit  was  made  off  him.  Crow’s  work  at 
third,  and  the  playing  of  Beck  and  Elder, 
for  Perry,  were  the  important  points. 

The  next  victim  was  a team  hailing  from 
Nelsonville,  and,  although  they  came  to  us 
with  considerable  reputation,  they  proved 
easy,  the  visitors  being  unable  to  solve 
Hoffman’s  delivery. 

Of  the  three  runs  made  by  Nelsonville 
but  one  was  earned,  while  the  college  boys 
refused  to  be  contented  until  thirteen  men 
had  crossed  the  plate.  Hoffman  carried  off 
the  honors  in  batting,  getting  four  hits  out 
of  five  times  at  bat.  But  Morgan,  aided  by 
the  heavy  stick  work  of  Clifton  and  Crow, 
crossed  the  plate  three  times.  The  work  of 
Elder  and  Crow  in  the  out  field  and  Clif- 
ton at  short  was  splendid. 

Our  last  victim  was  a team  from  Albany, 
who  succumbed  6 to  4.  This  game  was 
played  with  a patched-up  team,  two  of  the 
best  players  from  O.  U.  having  gone  home. 
Nevertheless,  at  the  beginning  of  the  9th 
but  four  of  the  Albany  team  were  able  to 
cross  the  plate. 

With  two  men  on  bases  and  one  man  out, 
Albany  team  batted  out  of  turn,  retiring 
the  side,  leaving  nine  from  the  summer 
school  without  a defeat. 


KALER  BOARDING  CLUB. 

Rear  row  beginning  at  left: 

Miss  Helen  Mills,  Miss  Ethel  Dunfee,  Miss 
Blanche  Smith,  Mr.  C.  C.  Cox,  Miss  Anna 
Reimann,  Mr.  0.  E.  Shirk,  Miss  Belva 
Leake,  Miss  Flora  Lacy,  Miss  Cora  Flinn, 
Miss  Anna  Carleton,  Miss  May  Dunston,  Mr. 
W.  F.  Lady. 

Front  row,  beginning  at  left: 

J.  M.  Gordon,  Miss  Madge  O’Dell,  Miss 
Dorothy  Book,  Mr.  J.  F.  Reynolds,  steward, 
Miss  Olive  Rohrbaugh,  Miss  Flavia  Duns- 
ton, Mr.  George  Lady,  Miss  May  Templar. 


LOWRY  BOARDING  CLUB. 

First  row,  beginning  on  left: 

1,  W.  N.  Davis;  2,  Grace  McBride;  3,  Fan- 
nie B.  Sawyer;  4,  J.  Boyd  Davis;  5,  Jessie 
McBride;  6,  Elizabeth  Lewis;  7,  Rhea 
Simpson. 

Second  row:  1,  lira  L.  Landes,  2,  Ira 
Rutledge;  3,  Emma  E.  Kling;  4,  Flora  E. 


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Weast;  5,  Julia  Giesey;  6,  Bertha  Wilcox; 
7,  Gertrude  Giesey;  8,  Jane  Lindsay. 

Third  row:  1,  Emma  S.  Kratsch;  2, 
Clara  Fierstos;  3,  Mary  Friedrich;  4,  Mrs. 
Lowry;  5,  Jennie  Evans;  6,  Pearl  Evans; 
7,  Eva  McCoy;  8,  M.  Katharyn  Jones. 

JACKSON  COUNTY  CLUB. 

First  row,  beginning  at  left:  1,  W.  N. 
Davis;  2,  Jennie  E.  Evans;  3,  G.  L.  Ely;  4, 
Mertie  Brohard;  5,  Wm.  Howell;  6,  Aliena 
M.  Brookins. 

Second  row:  1,  Earle  D.  Martin,  2,  Quip- 
pie  B.  Skinner;  3,  J.  F.  Dixon;  4,  M.  Kath- 
aryn Jones;  5,  Harold  L.  Hayes;  6,  Ada 
Harper. 

Third  row:  1,  Mabel  L.  Hunsicker;  2, 
Clyde  A.  Clark;  3,  Hannah  E.  Clark;  4, 
Prof.  D.  J.  Evans;  5,  T.  N.  Hoover;  6,  Mary 
F.  Reed. 


CABEEN  BOARDING  CLUB. 

THOSE  whose  faces  are  found  in  the 
picture  are  as  follows:  Beginning 
at  the  left  and  counting  those  in  the 
rear  row  are  Supt.  H.  L.  Cash,  Byesville; 
J.  E.  Ring,  Martins  Ferry;  C.  W.  Cramer, 
Lowell;  Loring  Hall,  Long  Bottom;  W.  E. 
feines,  Uhlric;  T.  O.  Young,  Beallsville;  J. 
H.  Nau,  Carroll;  H.  L.  Hayes,  Jackson, 
Joseph  R.  Finney,  Waverly;  Bert  M. 
Thompson,  Senecaville,  Manager  of  the 
club;  Prof.  Edson  M.  Mills,  Normal  College. 

Beginning  at  the  left  in  front  row  are 
J.  O.  Hillery,  Bloomville;  J.  F.  Dixon,  Jack- 
son;  F.  O.  Martin,  Marr;  Charles  T.  Hiser, 
Marshall;  W.  A.  McCleary,  Lancaster; 
George  Creamer,  Businessburg;  E.  D.  Mar- 
tin, Jackson. 

The  picture  was  taken  in  front  of  the 
Normal  College  building. 


RESOLUTIONS  OF  RESPECT. 

We,  as  a committee,  representing  the 
student  body  of  Ohio  University,  wish  to 
express  the  deep  sense  of  loss  felt  by  the 
students  of  the  university  in  the  death  of 
their  friend  and  classmate,  Chas.  H.  Dum- 
aree.  As  a man,  upright  and  conscien- 
tious; as  a student,  honest  and  hard-work- 
ing; as  a friend,  faithful,  just  and  true. 

His  influence  in  the  class  room,  the  liter- 
ary hall  and  the  Christian  association 
tended  for  the  good  in  the  lives  of  those 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 


We  further  wish  to  extend  our  sympathy 
to  the  bereaved  family,  and  to  pay  tribute 
to  his  memory  by  causing  this  to  be  pub- 
lished in  the  Ohio  University  Mirror  and 
in  the  papers  of  Athens  and  Vinton  county. 

j.  e.  mcdaniel, 

J.  F.  REYNOLDS, 

A.  A.  JOHSON, 

Committee. 

LITTLE  VINTON. 

ALTHOUGH  one  of  the  smallest  coun- 
ties in  the  state  and  having  the 
poorest-paid  teachers,  “Little  Vin- 
ton” had  one  of  the  largest  delegations  at 
the  summer  school. 

Her  teachers  are  young  but  ambitious, 
and  the  social  spirit  and  loyalty  to  each 
other  is  strong  within  them.  Early  in  ihe 
term  they  organized  an  association  of  about 
forty  members,  electing  W.  E.  Gibbs,  Pres- 
ident and  Miss  Eula  Snook,  Secretary. 

They  were  shocked  and  saddened  the 
second  week  of  the  term  by  the  sudden 
death  of  their  friend  and  comrade.  County 
Examiner  C.  H.  Dumaree.  They  testified  to 
ttyeir  love  for  him  and  sympathy  for  the 
family  by  attending  the  funeral  in  a body, 
and  by  sending  a beautiful  floral  offering 
with  the  inscription  “Vinton  County  Teach- 
ers.” 

Thursday,  July  6,  was  the  date  set  for 
the  association  picnic  on  the  beautiful  and 
romantic  North  Hill,  but  after  the  Com- 
missary committee  had  purchased  the 
viands  and  ordered  them  sent  to  the  Hill, 
a rain  storm  threatened,  and  the  caterer 
was  hastily  summoned  by  ’phone  and  in- 
structed to  send  the  good  things  to  the 
college  Gymnasium. 

Here  thirty-one  of  the  Vinton  pedagogues 
gathered,  and  after  doing  all  sorts  of 
stunts  in  the  gymnasium — even  binding 
the  bashful  boys  and  girls  to  the  pillars 
of  the  building  like  the  early  Christian 
martyrs,  taking  turns  at  basket  ball,  the 
rowing  machine,  the  hobby-horse  and  the 
health  wheel,  these  care-worn  teachers  did 
full  and  complete  justice  to  the  lunch,  thus 
vindicating  the  good  judgment  and  taste 
of  the  committee  who  purchased  it. 

One  of  the  latest  accessions  to  this  asso- 
ciation is  Principal  G.  A.  Bricker,  who 
succeeds  Harry  Coultrap  at  McArthur. 
Bricker  pronounced  it  a “Jolly,  Lively” 
crowd  and  said  that  he  had  a splendid  time. 


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The  Association  is  proud  of  the  fact  that 
two  members  of  the  faculty — Eli  Dunkle, 
Associate  Professor  of  Greek  and  Principal 
of  the  Preparatory  Department,  and  Hiram 
Roy  Wilson,  A.  M.,  Professor  of  English, 
were  born  in  this  county.  They  are  shown 
photographed  with  the  students  from  this 
county  on  another  page. 

As  the  picnic  party  dispersed  at  an  early 
hour,  glad  of  the  opportunity  to  get  ac- 
quainted and  relax  from  study  for  a little 
while  we  could  not  help  saying: 

“Men  are  only  boys  grown  tall, 

Hearts  don’t  change  much  after  all.” 

The  Picture. — Beginning  at  the  back  look- 
ing from  the  picture  read  from  the  right. 

Back  Row:  Luther  Allen,  Delbert  Swartz, 
H.  M.  McLaughlin,  Susie  Zimmerman,  Gol- 
die Staneart,  Bothwell  Will,  Delia  O’Con- 
nor, G.  A.  Bricker,  Verna  M.  Jolly. 

Second  Row,  from  back:  Ella  Murphy, 
Lovina  Caster,  W.  E.  Gibbs,  Mrs.  W.  E. 
Gibbs,  Erma  Gibbs,  Stella  Atkinson,  Jenola 
Atkinson,  S.  T.  McLain,  Mary  M.  Reed, 
Claire  Hartley. 

Third  Row:  Mamie  Shea,  Maggie  Kenny, 
Quippie  Skinner,  Clelie  James,  Adaline 
Curry,  Ed.  L.  Dumaree,  Esther  M.  Taylor. 

Fourth  Row:  Aura  Caster,  Mary  F.  Reed, 
O.  A.  Butcher,  Anna  Kenny,  T.  P.  Johnston, 
Carrie  King,  Marie  McPherson,  Pearly 
Gaskill,  Erma  Staneart,  Bertha  Lively. 

Fifth  Row,  front:  Prof.  Eli  Dunkle,  Clara 
McGillivray,  Prof.  H.  R.  Wlilson. 


SUMMER  SCHOOL  EXCURSION. 

ONE  of  the  most  pleasant  memories  of 
the  Summer  School  of  1905  will  be 
the  outing  recalled  by  311  students 
who  made  the  trip  to  Parkersburg,  Blenner- 
hassett  Island,  Marietta,  and  up-the-river 
points  July  15,  1905.  The  whole  trip  had 
been  carefully  planned  by  Dean  H.  G.  Wil- 
liams, of  the  State  Normal  College,  who 
conducts  an  excursion  each  summer  for  the 
pleasure  of  the  students. 

The  trip  began  at  8:55  A.  M.  over  the 
B.  & O.  S.  W.  to  Parkersburg,  round  trip 
75  cents.  At  Parkersburg  the  party  boarded 
two  boats  in  waiting  ,“The  Bessie  Smith” 
and  “The  Valley  Belle,”  for  a trip  of  about 
60  miles  up  the  beautiful  Ohio  and  back. 
On  the  return  a stop  of  one  hour  and  thirty 
minutes  was  made  at  Marietta,  where  the 
party  was  conducted  over  the  city  and 


shown  many  places  of  historical  interest 
which  were  explained  by  Dean  Williams, 
who  was  for  four  years  superintendent  of 
the  Marietta  city  schools  and  is  familiar 
with  all  the  places  of  interest. 

The  party  returned  to  Parkersburg  and 
spent  a pleasant  evening  at  Terrapin  Park, 
where  supper  was  served  the  entire  party. 
The  special  train  of  eight  coaches,  chartered 
by  the  excursionists,  brought  them  back  to 
Athens  about  11  P.  M.,  without  an  accident 
or  anything  to  mar  the  pleasures  of  an  ideal 
day  on  the  Ohio  River.  The  following  “itin- 
erary and  log-book”  was  distributed  in 
printed  form  to  all  excursionists  soon  after 
the  train  pulled  out  of  Athens: 

ITINERARY  AND  LOG  BOOK 
SUMMER  SCHOOL  EXCURSION 
JULY  15,  1905. 

This  train  makes  all  regular  (and  some 
irregular)  stops  between  Athens  and  Par- 
kersburg, arriving  at  Parkersburg  about 
10:15  A.  M.  unless  it  should  arrive  later. 
In  case  it  arrives  later  it  will  be  late. 

On  reaching  Parkersburg  we  shall  march 
(please  note)  directly  to  the  steamboat 
landing  where  we  shall  not  all  board  the 
same  boat.  Here’s  where  the  trouble  will 
begin  and  history  may  repeat  itself.  Re- 
member the  English  and  the  Acadians,  and 
the  story  of  Evangeline.  Be  sure  that  you 
and  your  best  girl  board  the  same  boat.  In 
order  that  you  may  be  sure  of  your  dinner 
it  would  be  well  for  you  to  board  the  boat 
that  is  to  carry  your  dinner  basket.  Boats 
will  leave  Parkersburg  as  soon  as  we  get 
ready,  or  before. 

We  shall  take  our  crews  and  start  on 
our  cruise  up  the  River  Beautiful,  proceed- 
ing a distance  of  forty  miles  or  more. 
Everybody  is  instructed  to  enjoy  thonself 
to  the  utmost  or  more.  Have  a good  time 
or  better.  Dinner  will  be  served  a la  pick- 
nique  about  twelve  M.  somewhere  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  city  named  in  honor  of 
Marie  Antoinette.  Dinner  will  be  served 
in  courses,  some  more  so  than  others.  Af- 
ter dinner  we  shall  feed  the  whales. 

An  ochestra  of  eight  pieces  has  been  se- 
cured to  furnish  music  divine.  This  was 
an  after-thought,  that  is,  the  securing  of  the 
orchestra.  To  defray  the  expenses  of  these 
dispensers  of  these  heavenly  strains  each 
traveller  will  be  asked  to  contribute  ten 
cents  or  one  dime  to  the  music  fund.  Boat 


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tickets  will  be  sold  on  the  boats.  Please 
have  the  change  ready. 

The  boats  will  return  to  Parkersburg 
about  six  o’clock  when  we  shall  proceed  by 
traction,  line  for  Terrapin  Park.  Be  sure 
to  see  the  Terrapin.  Luncheon*  will  here 
be  served  for  20  cents  and  will  consist  of 
two  sam  handwiches,  potato  salad,  a cup 
of  coffee,  (guaranteed  not  sweet  potatoes), 
and  pickles  for  those  who  need  them.  Ice 
cream  and  cake  10  cents  extra  for  those 
who  have  the  extra.  The  fare  to  and  from 
the  Park  will  be  5 cents  each  way.  Cars 
Leave  the  Park  at  8:30  p.  m.,  Athens  time. 

The  party  will  return  by  special  train 
leaving  Parkersburg  at  9 p.  m.,  Athens  time. 
The  train  makes  but  one  stop  on  the  return 
trip. 

Don’t  Forget  the  College  Yells. 

O.  U.!  O.  U.!  Rah-Rah!  Rah-Rah! 

O.  U.!  O.  U.!  Rah-Rah!  Rah-Rah! 

Hoo-Rah ! Hoo-Rah ! 

Bully  for  old  O.  XJ.! 

Boom-a-lack-a!  Boom-a-lack-a! 

Bow-wow-wow ! 

Ching-a-lack-a ! Ching-a-lack-a! 

Chow-chow-chow ! 

Boom-a-lack-a!  Ching-a-lack-a! 

Who  are  we? 

Ohio  XJniversity!  XJp  in  G! 

N-O-R-M-A-L 

That’s  the  way  we  spell  it! 

This  is  the  way  we  yell  it! 

Nofmal!  Normal!  NORMAL! 


THE  FOURTH  AT  O.  U. 

THE  FOXJRTH  of  July  was  observed  in 
a most  fitting  way  by  the  students  of 
the  Ohio  XJniversity  and  the  citizens 
of  Athens.  The  exercises  held  in  the  audi- 
torium were  attended  by  six  hundred  stud- 
ents and  many  citizens  of  the  city.  Presi- 
dent Ellis  had  arranged  an  excellent  pro- 
gram, which  was  well  carried  out. 

“America”  was  sung,  and  was  followed 
by  invocation  by  Rev.  Father  Banahan.  Hon. 
L.  C.  Laylin,  secretary  of  the  state,  talked 
of  the  settlement  and  development  of  the 
state  and  the  character  of  the  people.  Three 
things,  the  location,  the  laws,  and  the  com- 
posite character  of  the  citizens,  have  had 
much  to  do  in  making  Ohio  one  of  the 
greatest  states  of  the  union.  Secretary 
Laylin  closed  with  a glowing  tribute  to  Ohio 
XJniversity,  which  has  exerted  such  an  in- 
fluence in  this  state  and  nation. 

Hon.  Albert  Douglas,  LL.  D.,  of  Chilli- 


cothe,  the  second  speaker,  acknowledged  in 
a public  way  the  honor  conferred  upon  him 
by  the  Ohio  XJniversity,  which  gave  him  the 
LL.  D.  In  his  eloquent  way,  he  spoke  of  the 
Fourth  of  July  as  a day  of  many  great 
events.  He  spoke  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence as  that  which  has  been  the 
inspiration  of  the  great  men  since  it  was 
written.  He  closed  with  a tribute  to  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  and  the  late  great  diplomat, 
Secretary  of  State,  John  Hay. 

Rev.  L.  D.  Gilbert,  D.  D.,  of  Cincinnati, 
made  the  closing  address.  He  is  a well- 
known  favorite  here,  and  his  address 
Tuesday  was  one  of  his  best.  Among  the 
thoughts  he  presented  was  the  increase  in 
the  ardor  or  patriotism,  importance  of  read- 
ing history  and  biography,  respect  for  the 
flag,  the  meaning  of  citizenship,  the  need 
of  a new  declaration  of  independence,  free- 
dom from  the  political  boss,  liberty  and 
justice.  The  speaker  closed  with  a tribute 
to  the  men  whose  work  has  made  the  day  a 
day  to  be  celebrated,  not  only  in  this  coun- 
try, but  a universal  holiday  for  humanity. 

The  music  was  furnished  by  a double 
quartet  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Can- 
field,  and  the  college  male  quartet,  com- 
posed of  Messrs.  Wilson,  Crooks,  Hoover, 
and  Waggoner.  The  benediction  by  Rev. 
W.  L.  Slutz,  D.  D.,  closed  the  exercises  of 
the  morning. 

THE  WESTERN  RESERVE  CLUB. 

THE  WESTERN  RESERVE  CLUB  had 
a membership  of  foriy-three  this 
term.  As  last  summer,  the  students 
from  Stark,  Mahoning  and  Columbiana  coun- 
ties became  members.  Several  pleasure  trips 
were  taken,  among  them  a tallyho  ride  to 
Luhrig  to  visit  the  mines,  and  a visit  to  the 
State  Hospital.  Perhaps  the  most  pleasant 
meeting  of  the  summer  was  the  second 
annual  reception  given  Tuesday  evening, 
July  25,  in  the  Philomathean  literary  hall, 
when  Prof.  Treudley  with  others  inter- 
spersed the  feast  with  instructive  as  well 
as  highly  entertaining  talks.  Following  are 
the  names  and  addresses  of  the  members: 
Jane  Lindsay,  Lorain;  I.  T.  Rutledge,  Huck- 
leberry; C.  L.  Silliday,  New  Millford;  H. 
C.  Spore,  Oberlin;  Grace  Ward,  Ashtabula; 
Anna  Week,  Plymouth;  Martha  Weigel, 
Saline ville;  Lois  J.  Young,  Norwalk;  Har- 
riet R.  Andrews,  Chagrin  Falls;  Myrtle  M. 


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Bennett,  Hiram;  Mary  M.  Frederick,  Mas- 
sillon; Mayme  Jones,  Wayne;  Alice  E. 
Moon,  Warren;  Silvia  L.  Smith,  Sullivan; 
Edna  M.  Akers,  Erie;  Margaret  Parmella 
Bellamy,  Norwalk;  Mary  Bowman,  Massil- 
lon; Mary  C.  Clark,  Hudson;  Cora  L.  Covey, 
Chagrin  Falls;  Inez  L.  Cowles,  Wellington; 
Clara  S.  Fierstos,  Massillon;  Clara  E. 
Groner,  Lisbon;  Mary  T.  Hardy,  Union- 
ville;  Bertha  Hayes,  Wakeman;  Anna  E. 
Henry,  Kinsman;  Florence  B.  Hill,  Chicago 
Junction;  Myrtle  M.  Holden,  Erie  Co.; 
Emma  Kratsch,  Massillon;  Erla  E.  Leich- 
tenstein,  Lisbon;  Mae  R.  Lloyd,  Norwalk; 
Grace  A.  Marvin,  Cortland;  George  Messin- 
ger.  Chagrin  Falls;  Jennie  C.  Myers,  Canal 
Fulton;  Maude  E.  Vaughn,  Mantua;  W.  W. 
Weaver,  Columbiana;  Etta  Cowie,  Green- 
wich; May  Templer,  Palestine;  Olive  Rohr- 
baugh,  Mahoning;  Aaron  W.  Bear,  Celina; 
A.  A.  Johnson,  Farmdale;  Roberta  Schwartz, 
Geauga;  Roscoe  Heiman,  Huron;  Everett 
P'letcher,  Huron. 

PERRY  COUNTY  CLUB. 

Upper  Row:  W.  S.  Edmund,  S.  McArtor, 
W.  J.  Bankes,  B.  B.  Spohn. 

Second  row:  Mary  Whitmer,  May  Rich- 
ards, Laura  Hastings,  Benj.  Beck,  Ella  Cur- 
ran, Maria  Johnson,  O E.  Snyder,  Minnie 
Baird,  Lizzie  Cooper,  Hettie  Minor,  Anna 
Devlyn,  Margaret  Conn. 

Third  or  front  row:  Jessie  Barnette,  Flora 
Hutchins,  E.  R.  Beck,  Mary  Friel,  Guy 
Lawyer,  Alvin  Ketcham,  Frank  Mechling, 
H.  L.  Ridenour,  C.  L.  Martzolff,  Isel  Wise, 
Ray  Ridenour,  Jos.  Gordon,  Clarice  Fisher, 
Anna  Strub. 

ROSS,  HIGHLAND,  CLINTON,  AND 
FAYETTE  CLUB. 

THE  “BIG  FOUR”  met  June  30  and 
effected  an  organization  by  electing 
E.  C.  Boyd,  president;  Maude  Eggles- 
ton, secretary;  Dorothy  Book,  treasurer; 
H.  G.  Crow,  Dorothy  Book,  Blanche  Parrett, 
Lillie  Faris,  and  W.  F.  Lady,  executive  com- 
mittee. The  committee  arranged  for  a 
banquet,  which  was  held  in  the  Normal  Col- 
lege building  July  8.  The  Athens  Journal 
had  the  following  to  say  about  this  interest- 
ing event: 

“The  social  feature  of  the  third  week  was 
the  banquet  given  on  Saturday  evening  by 
the  Ross-Highland-Clinton-Fayette  club,  at 
the  Normal  College  building.  The  feast  was 


prepared  by  Miss  Faris,  assisted  by  other 
members  of  the  club.  Fortunate,  indeed, 
will  be  the  one  who  succeeds  in  taking  unto 
himself  One  who  can  prepare  such  things  to 
eat  as  were  given  by  the  girls  of  this  club. 
Fried  chicken,  pickles,  sandwiches,  cakes, 
deviled  eggs,  ice  cream,  water  melon,  punch 
and  other  things  too  numerous  to  mention, 
were  in  abundance.  After  the  severe  at- 
tack all  along  the  line  had  somewhat  al- 
layed, Dean  Williams  was  introduced  as 
toastmaster,  and  responded  with  a pleasant 
address.  Many  and  excellent  were  the 
toasts  given  by  the  young  ladies  and  gen- 
tlemen present.  It  was  not  until  late  in  the 
evening  that  the  enjoyable  affair  ended. 
Those  present  were  Dean  and  Mrs.  H.  G. 
Williams,  Miss  Faris,  Misses  Asher,  Bless- 
ing, Boyce,  Book,  Williams,  Bourquin,  Clark, 
Creed,  Eckstein,  Edwards,  Eggleston,  Hays, 
Heath,  Hughes,  Kling,  Maddux,  Martin, 
Morton,  Parrett,  Sayre,  Yaple,  and  Messrs. 
Boyd,  Cameron,  Hiser,  Cox,  Crow,  Dawson, 
Lady,  Shannon,  and  Morgan.” 

The  roll  call  showed  the  following  per- 
sons present:  From  Ross  county — Misses 
Anna  Boyce,  Grace  Eckstein,  Blanche  Heath, 
Birdie  Edwards,  Susie  Hughes,  Odessa 
Yaple,  Clarissa  Sayre,  and  Messrs.  W.  T. 
Morgan,  Albert  Cameron,  Joel  Immelt,  J.  S. 
Dawson,  Clarence  Cox,  E.  C.  Boyd,  and  Ar- 
thur A.  Jones.  From  Highland  county — 
Lillie  Faris  (Critic  Teacher  in  State  Nor- 
mal College),  Dean  H.  G.  Williams  (from 
Highland  county),  Mabel  Bourquin,  Mae 
Creed,  Lizzie  E.  Clark,  Emma  Kling, 
Blanche  Morton,  Dorothy  Book,  Charles  T. 
Hiser,  and  Flora  Weast.  From  Fayette 
county — Maude  Eggleston,  Blanche  Parrett, 
Morna  Blessing,  Ilo  Maddux,  Ethel  Asher, 
Ethel  Siebern,  Carrie  Hays,  G.  W.  Lady,  W. 
F.  Lady,  and  H.  G.  Crow.  From  Clinton 
county — J.  A.  Shannon. 

What’s  in  a Name?  Well,  read  the  fol- 
lowing and  you  will  see:  Do  we  wish  to 
go  quickly  to  the  hillsides  of  Scotland,  we 
but  look  at  Miss  Heath  and  there  we  are. 
Do  we  wish  to  visit  the  scenes  of  action 
during  the  Civil  War,  we  but  follow  Mor- 
gan in  his  journey.  We  think  of  Dawson 
and  cool  off  by  inhaling  the  Alaskan 
breeze.  Thinking  of  political  power  we  are 
reminded  of  Cox.  Trying  to  think  of  a 
name  to  apply  to  three-fourths  of  the 
earthly  population,  we  settle  at  once  on 


THE  MIRROR 


Jones.  Wlhen  we  argue  religious  matters 
Creed  comes  to  our  mind.  As  it  nears  au- 
tumn time  we  naturally  think  of  Kling. 
Studying  our  lessons  the  Book  is  before  us. 
Desiring  music  and  back  talk  we  call  on 
the  Parrett.  When  we  are  discouraged  our 
one  Blessing  bids  us  hope.  When  we  go 
home  on  our  vacation  our  father  sends  us 
to  the  field  with  the  Maddux;  if  not  there, 
then  to  make  Hay.  Our  Irish  members  like 
to  sail  sometimes  on  the  Shannon.  When 
thinking  of  the  feminine  portion  of  the  club 
we  have  in  mind  of  course  the  Ladys  (W. 
F.  Lady,  the  “Old  Lady,”  and  G.  W.  Lady, 
the  “Young  Lady”).  Desiring  a trip  through 
the  air  we  but  mount  the  wings  of  the 
Crow,  the  bird  with  the  blackest  of  feath- 
ers but  with  a heart  as  white  as  any. 


ROSS,  HIGHLAND,  CLINTON  AND 
FAYETTE. 

Top  row,  beginning  at  left:  Flora  Weast, 
Clarence  Cox,  Clarissa  Sayre,  Blanche 
Heath,  Susie  Hughes,  Odessa  Yaple,  W.  T. 
Morgan,  C-  T.  Hiser,  Anna  Boyce,  Arthur  A. 
Jones,  J.  S.  Dawson,  Joel  Immelt. 

Second  row:  Mabel  Bourquin,  Mae  Creed, 
Dorothy  Book,  Lizzie  Clark,  Emma  Kling, 
Blanche  Morton,  Prof.  J.  A.  Shannon,  Birdie 
Edwards,  Albert  Cameron,  Grace  Eckstein, 
E.  C.  Boyd. 

Third  row:  Miss  Faris,  G.  W.  Lady, 
Maude  Eggleston,  Blanche  Parrett,  H.  G. 
Williams,  Morna  Blessing,  Ilo  Maddux, 
Ethel  Asher,  W.  F.  Lady,  Ethel  Siebern, 
Carrie  Hays,  H.  G.  Crow. 

A BUSY  PRESIDENT. 

SOME  OF  THE  OCCASIONS  on  which 
President  Ellis  has  delivered  public 
addresses  since  February  1,  1905,  are 
as  follows: 

Two  lectures  before  the  Farmers’  Insti- 
tute of  Frankfort,  Ross  Co.,  Ohio;  address 
before  the  New  Lexington,  Ohio,  high 
school;  lecture  at  Rehoboth,  Ohio;  two  lec- 
tures before  the  Henry  County  Teachers’ 
Association,  at  McClure,  Ohio;  lecture  at 
Clifton,  Greene  Co.,  Ohio;  discussions  be- 
fore the  Western  Ohio  Superintendents’ 
Round  Table,  Dayton,  Ohio;  lecture  at  Car- 
thage, Hamilton  Co.,  Ohio;  two  addresses 
before  the  Bellefontaine,  Ohio,  high  school; 
lecture  at  Mt.  Victory,  Hardin  Co.,  Ohio; 
two  addresses  before  the  Norwalk,  Ohio, 


high  school;  commencement  addresses, 
high  school,  at  Wilmington,  Collins,  Mau- 
mee, Lewisburg,  Sidney,  Athens,  and 
Springfield,  Ohio;  commencement  address 
at  the  Flowers  Academy  of  Speech  and 
Dramatic  Arts,  Cincinnati,  Ohio;  and  the 
address  before  the  Patterson  graduates, 
Morgan  Co.,  at  McConnelsville,  Ohio. 


EDUCATIONAL  NEWS  NOTES. 

Mr.  F.  J.  Ulrich,  of  Sidney,  did  advanced 
work  at  the  Ohio  University  this  Summer. 

Miss  Nancy  Means  Colville,  of  Carlisle, 
Ky.,  attended  the  O.  U.  Summer  School. 

The  City  of  Xenia  was  represented  at  the 
O.  U.  Summer  School  by  Miss  Marie  E. 
Brown. 

Franklin  County  contributed  fifteen  bright 
young  ladies  to  the  Summer  School  at 
Athens. 

Supt.  H.  L.  Clark,  of  Byesville,  spent  the 
summer  in  profitable  study  at  Ohio  Uni- 
versity. 

Miss  Lida  McBride,  from  Ludlow,  Ky., 
will  soon  complete  her  degree  course  at 
Ohio  University. 

Supt.  J.  A.  Shannon,  of  Cuba,  O.,  spent 
some  time  in  Athens  attending  the  O.  U. 
Summer  School. 

Prof.  John  Calvin  Beal,  of  Ashland  Col- 
lege, spent  the  summer  at  Ohio  University 
doing  advanced  work. 

Cecil  R.  Cline,  a graduate  of  Ohio  Uni- 
versity, will  superintend  the  schools  at 
Vincent  the  coming  year. 

Miss  May  Connor,  of  Athens,  has  been 
elected  to  a position  in  the  Athens  High 
School  at  $50.00  per  month. 

Williams  County  sent  a fine  delegation 
of  fine  young  people  to  a fine  school  at 
Ohio  University  this  summer. 

Miss  Alice  Fraser,  a student  of  the  State 
Normal  College,  Athens,  has  been  employed 
to  teach  in  the  schools  of  Warren,  Ohio. 

Supt.  O.  A.  Butcher,  of  Wiilkesville,  im- 
proved the  summer  vacation  by  taking  a 
course  at  Ohio  University  Summer  School. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Bailey,  of  New  Straits- 
ville,  has  been  chosen  to  a good  position 
in  the  Parkersburg  schools  at  $70.00  a 
month. 

Supt  J.  M.  Beck,  of  Hicksville,  spent  six 
weeks  at  Ohio  University  Summer  School. 
He  is  a graduate  of  Ypsilanti  State  Normal 
School. 


THE  MIRROR 


Miss  Mary  E.  Cosgrove,  the  talented 
daughter  of  Prof.  F.  A.  Cosgrove,  of  Cir- 
cleville,  will  teach  in  the  Ashville  schools 
this  year. 

Hillsboro  sent  a good  delegation  to  the 
O.  U.  Summer  School  at  Athens,  Albert  F. 
Cameron,  Lizzie  E.  Clark,  May  Creed,  Jes- 
sie Bourquin. 

Miss  Fannie  Cozette  Bean,  who  has  done 
commercial  work  in  New  York  and  Pitts- 
burg, will  teach  in  the  Athens  schools  the 
coming  year. 

Supt.  John  W.  Adams,  of  Johnstown, 
spent  the  summer  in  faithful  study  at  Ohio 
University.  Mr.  Adams  is  a growing  man 
of  unusual  promise. 

Mr.  Garland  A.  Bricker,  of  Etna,  for 
some  time  a student  at  Ohio  University, 
has  been  elected  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  McArthur. 

Mr.  Herbert  C.  Spore,  of  Oberlin,  a pro- 
gressive and  successful  township  superin- 
tendent, spent  a six  weeks’  term  in  study 
ac  Ohio  University. 

Mr.  John  E.  Ring,  a very  successful  prin- 
cipal in  the  Martins  Ferry  schools,  spent  the 
summer  in  the  pursuit  of  further  knowledge 
at  Ohio  University. 

Miss  Bessie  H.  Wagner,  of  New  Philadel- 
phia, a Normal  College  student  of  other 
days,  has  a very  desirable  position  in  the 
schools  of  Dennison. 

Massillon  was  ably  represented  in  the 
O.  U.  Summer  School  by  Misses  Mary  M. 
Friedrich,  Emma  S.  Kratsch,  May  Bowman 
and  Clara  S.  Fierstos. 

Mr.  David  N.  Kinney  came  all  the  way 
from  Staunton,  Va.,  to  attend  the  O.  U. 
Summer  School  at  Athens,  as  did  also  Mr. 
W.  H.  Norton,  of  the  same  place. 

Supt.  C.  H.  Copeland,  of  Hamden,  was  re- 
cently appointed  county  examiner  in  Vinton 
county,  to  succeed  Charles  H.  Dumaree, 
whose  death  occurred  at  Athens  June  24. 

John  Edmon  McDaniel,  of  La  Junta,  Col- 
orado, a graduate  of  Ohio  University,  class 
of  1904,  has  been  employed  as  assistant  in 
the  Department  of  Biology  at  Ohio  Uni- 
versity, Athens. 

Miss  Anna  May  St.  Clair,  a teacher  in 
the  Portsmouth  schools  and  a graduate  of 
Ohio  University,  1895,  completed  in  June 
her  course  for  Master’s  degree,  and  was 
granted  the  degree  of  M.  A.  She  also  spent 
the  summer  in  study  in  the  O.  U. 


Supt.  A.  G.  Deaver,  of  Glenford,  has  been 
elected  superintendent  at  New  Straitsville 
at  a fine  increase  in  salary.  Mr.  Deaver, 
wife  and  two  children  spent  the  Spring 
Term  at  Athens. 

Miss  Catherine  R.  Martin,  of  Jackson, 
who  has  just  completed  her  course  at  Ohio 
University  with  much  elective  normal  train- 
ing, has  been  employed  as  primary  teacher 
at  Hudson,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Bert  M.  Thompson,  of  the  Byesville 
High  School,  spent  the  summer  and  a por- 
tion of  the  spring  in  study  at  Ohio  Univer- 
sity. Mr.  Thompson  is  a very  promising 
young  school  man. 

Chillicothe’s  contribution  to  the  O.  U. 

Summer  School  this  year  consisted  of  the 
following  named  persons:  Birdie  Edwards, 
Orville  F.  Figley,  Nannie  Hughes,  Susie 
Hughes  and  Odessa  L.  Yaple. 

Mr.  Joseph  W.  Bankes,  of  Crooksville, 
spent  the  summer  at  Athens  in  study  to  fit 
himself  more  fully  for  high-grade  work. 
Mr.  Bankes  also  enjoyed  the  company  of 
Mrs.  Bankes  during  the  term. 

Miss  May  Templer,  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  East  Palestine,  and  a graduate  of 
the  State  Normal  College,  took  special  work 
in  School  Administration  and  other  subjects 
at  the  O.  U.  Summer  School. 

Prin.  C.  M.  Matheny,  of  the  Athens  High 
School,  resigned  and  has  accepted  the 
position  of  teacher  of  Mathematics  in  the 
Circleville  High  School  at  a good  salary. 
He  is  a graduate  of  Ohio  University. 

Miss  Louise  King  Walls,  of  Covington, 
Ky.,  has  been  employed  as  instructor  in 
Elocution  and  Dramatic  Art  at  Ohio  Uni- 
versity. Her  training  and  experience 
most  admirably  fit  her  for  the  position. 

Dr.  C.  B.  Taylor,  of  McArthur,  visited  the 
Summer  School  at  Athens,  where  he  had  a 
bright  and  promising  daughter  in  school. 
Dr.  Taylor  is  one  of  the  county  examiners 
in  Vinton,  and  was  recently  re-appointed. 

Mr.  George  L.  Ely,  who  completed  his 
course  at  Ohio  University  this  summer, 
B.  Ped,  and  B.  Ph.  degrees,  has  been  elected 
principal  of  one  of  the  best  ward  schools 
in  Middletown,  O.,  at  $850.  Mr.  Ely  has  had 
nine  years’  experience  in  city  schools  and 
is  finely  equipped  for  the  work  he  has 
chosen,  and  will  prove  a splendid  addition 
to  the  already  strong  corps  of  able  teachers 
under  the  supervision  of  Arthur  Powell. 


